Database Engineer — Storage & Query Execution
Hybrid (San Francisco, CA, US)$150k - $250kFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
ParadeDB is a Postgres-native alternative to Elasticsearch, building state-of-the-art search and columnar analytics as a Postgres extension. The role focuses on developing and optimizing ParadeDB’s PostgreSQL extension, internals, and related open-source integrations.
Responsibilities
- Develop and optimize the ParadeDB PostgreSQL extension using Postgres APIs via pgrx
- Build features interfacing with Postgres storage, indexing, query planning, query execution, and extension infrastructure
- Work with internals of Tantivy, Apache DataFusion, and other open-source systems to implement new search and analytics capabilities
- Contribute upstream to Tantivy, DataFusion, and other dependencies
- Design and implement efficient data structures and algorithms for search and analytical workloads
- Optimize query performance and resource utilization using profiling tools
- Contribute to evolution of ParadeDB's search, analytics, indexing, and query processing capabilities
- Develop and maintain documentation, including API references and user guides
- Engage directly with customers and the open-source community on GitHub and Slack
- Contribute to technical writing, product demos, and content marketing
- Help shape ParadeDB's product roadmap and technical direction
Qualifications
- A solid foundation in database systems and internals
- Meaningful experience on databases, query engines, storage engines, indexing systems, or related infrastructure software
- Proficiency in systems programming with C/C++/Rust/Zig; ability to navigate large codebases (bonus: Rust)
- Experience designing, profiling, optimizing, debugging systems with focus on performance, scalability, maintainability
- Experience with Postgres internals, database extensions, or related systems (a plus)
- Familiarity with query optimization, vectorized execution, columnar storage, analytical query processing (a plus)
- Familiarity with search systems (a plus)
- Familiarity with Tantivy, Apache DataFusion, Arrow, Parquet, or pgrx (a plus)
- Contributions to high-quality open-source projects (a plus)
- Prior startup experience (a plus)
Skills
Required:PostgreSQL extension developmentC/C++Query optimizationData structures & algorithmsProfiling & performance tuning
Nice to have:RustOpen-source collaboration
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About ParadeDB
The transactional Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres
ParadeDB is an open source, ACID-compliant search and analytics database. Built on Postgres for update-heavy workloads.
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