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Job Description: Software Engineer II - QP Performance
@ Ocient
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
$125k-$160k/yr
Remote
Full Time
Responsibilities:
Developing performance tests, Mentoring junior engineers, Collaborating with QA
Requirements Summary:
2+ years of experience in coding with an object-oriented language and 1+ years in Python or similar for test infrastructure.
Technical Tools Mentioned:
C++, Java, C#, Python
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Location: Chicago,Illinois,United States

Job Title: Software Engineer II, Solutions

Location:  100% Remote (US Based Only)

          *We cannot sponsor or transfer any visas, of any kind, at this time*

Hiring Manager: Senior Engineering Manager

Estimated salary range: $125,000 to $160,000

* The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations

About Ocient:

Ocient is a hyperscale data solutions company founded in Chicago, IL, enabling organizations to analyze trillions to quadrillions of data records in seconds. Over the past five years, Ocient has built a SQL compliant data warehouse for Petabyte and beyond datasets that is 10x to 50x times faster than competitive OLAP databases. Our company is a remote first company, with employees all over the world. 

Position Overview: 

The Query Processing team at Ocient handles the full landscape of parsing, validating, optimizing and executing SQL queries. The team ensures queries are correct and valid, the SQL is lowered into an optimal, executable representation, and the resulting plan is efficiently executed over petabytes of data across tens to hundreds of nodes. Query Processing works closely with our Test Infrastructure, Quality Assurance and Customer Operations teams to evaluate and improve performance on existing and new customer workloads, while also implementing new functionality to enable customer success. We are seeking a software engineer with strong interests in test infrastructure and performance analysis, specifically as they relate to the world of distributed databases.

Responsibilities

Work closely with peers to develop performance test infrastructure for Query Processing components

Be a mentor and example to junior engineers on the team, help to grow them as developers in the realm of testing

Provide feedback on processes within the organization to eliminate developer pain points

Collaborate strongly with QA and our Tools team to implement tests onto nightly CI, QA infrastructure, and improve existing test infrastructure

Qualifications

BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or related technical field

2+ years of industry experience writing code to solve complex problems using an object-oriented programming language (e.g. C++, Java, C#)

1+ years work experience as a Software Engineer working in Python or similar test infrastructure language, and experience measuring performance in compiled languages

Strong understanding and application of data structures and algorithms.

Direct experience with testing performance of data warehouses and data analytics engines preferred

Experience developing on Linux and in large, version controlled projects

Ability to speak and write in English fluently

We are not open to using an agency or staffing company at this time. We do not accept unsolicited agency or staffing resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Ocient provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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