Senior Software Engineer - Datalake

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Dremio is the unified lakehouse platform for self-service analytics and AI, serving hundreds of global enterprises, including Maersk, Amazon, Regeneron, NetApp, and S&P Global. Customers rely on Dremio for cloud, hybrid, and on-prem lakehouses to power their data mesh, data warehouse migration, data virtualization, and unified data access use cases. Based on open source technologies, including Apache Iceberg and Apache Arrow, Dremio provides an open lakehouse architecture enabling the fastest time to insight and platform flexibility at a fraction of the cost. Learn more at

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineers to enhance Dremio’s data warehouse capabilities on top of the datalakes across all major table/file formats and object stores. These capability advancements will increase our competitive position in the market and enable Dremio adoption for a larger set of customers.

What you’ll be doing

Develop core components for Dremio’s Datalake engine

Deliver key features and feature enhancements for our customers in the Datalake like DML operations, time travel, schema evolution along with performance and reliability improvements

Work with open source projects like Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Arrow and Calcite

Own design, implementation, testing, and support of next-generation features related to scalability, reliability, robustness, and performance of the product

Understand and reason about concurrency and parallelization to deliver scalability and performance in a multithreaded and distributed environment

Solve complex technical problems and customer issues while improving our telemetry and instrumentation to proactively detect issues before they arise and make debugging more efficient

What we’re looking for

PhD/M.S./B.S. in Computer Science or related field

5+ years of experience developing production-level software

Fluency in Java, C++ or another general-purpose programming language

Strong database fundamentals and understanding of distributed systems internals

Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a team environment

Bonus points if you have

Hands-on experience with distributed query engines, query processing or optimization, distributed systems, concurrency control, data replication, code generation, or storage systems (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, etc.)

Experience with Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hive, AWS Glue, Parquet

Understanding of distributed file systems such as S3, ADLS, or HDFS

Hands on experience with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform

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