Senior Architect, Core Systems
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Fri, Oct 16, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
Working remotely, the full-time salaried Senior Architect, Core Systems will design and build the next generation of core technology platforms, focusing on execution platform architecture, high-performance systems engineering, and distributed systems at scale.
Key responsibilities
- Design the systems architecture for storage engines, distributed execution, and query processing
- Engineer high-performance systems with a focus on memory layout, data structures, and algorithmic complexity
- Develop distributed systems that maintain correctness under concurrency and elastic scale
Required qualifications
- 15+ years of deep software engineering experience in advanced enterprise software platforms
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field
- Substantial contributions to database engines, distributed databases, or compiler systems
- Expertise in database internals, distributed systems, and performance engineering
- Strong systems programming skills in Rust, C++, C, or similar languages
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