Hybrid Staff Software Engineer – Strategic Projects

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About the role

  • Staff Software Engineer for strategic projects at Exasol, focusing on complex system software and database initiatives. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to innovate and develop high-performance solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and contribute to strategic engineering initiatives across core database functionality, data ingestion, connectors, integrations, and platform components
  • Perform technical research, evaluation, and prototyping to explore new ideas, architectures, and technologies, and assess their feasibility, performance, and impact
  • Design and implement robust, scalable, and maintainable software, taking exploratory work through to production readiness
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional engineering teams to align on architecture, manage product development dependencies, and drive cross-team execution
  • Take ownership of complex problem areas and translate high-level goals into clear technical designs and deliverables
  • Contribute to initiatives that may span on-prem, cloud, or hybrid environments, considering performance, scalability, and operational constraints
  • Stay updated with the latest advancements in database technologies and development methodologies, and actively contribute to building a strong product and platform competency knowledge base within the Chennai development center

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience as a software engineer working on complex, backend, or system-level software
  • Strong proficiency in C++ or Python, with solid expertise in multithreading, data structures, performance optimization techniques, and algorithmic optimization; experience with Rust or other modern systems programming languages is a plus
  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining high-performance, scalable systems, preferably in data-intensive or platform-oriented environments
  • Good understanding of software architecture, system design, and engineering trade-offs
  • Prior exposure to database internals, such as SQL compilers, query optimizers, execution engines, or storage subsystems, is highly desirable
  • Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and an understanding of how large-scale systems behave in cloud or hybrid environments is a plus
  • Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and work on problems that span multiple components and technical domains

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • A structured onboarding program and hands-on mentorship
  • Career paths
  • The chance to grow inside a fast-scaling, high-performance team

Job title

Staff Software Engineer – Strategic Projects

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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