• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems for graph data.
• Tackle performance and scalability challenges, optimizing data ingestion, indexing, and query pipelines for low-latency and high-throughput requirements. Conduct systematic profiling and tuning.
• Build, optimize, and operate our core vector embedding infrastructure to enable efficient nearest neighbor search at scale.
• Proactively diagnose, debug, and resolve complex issues across the entire data stack, from performance bottlenecks and data inconsistencies to system failures. Lead root cause analysis for production incidents and implement preventive measures.
Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Skills and Knowledge
Deep,
hands-on experience with one or more vector databases or similarity search libraries.
• Proven experience designing and working with any graph database and query languages like Cypher
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: consensus, replication, sharding, and fault tolerance.
• Solid programming fundamentals; Expert-level proficiency in up-to-date C++, with deep understanding of language features and object-oriented design.
• Understanding of distributed systems principles and the ability to evaluate trade-offs in system design.
• Familiar with Kafka, ETCD or similar technologies;
• Proactive and collaborative team player with strong communication skills.
• Open to adopting AI-assisted engineering practices (vibe coding) to improve productivity and code quality.