Senior Software Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Thu, Oct 15, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
To help expand the reach of Lance and LanceDB within the broader data infrastructure ecosystem, the full-time Senior Software Engineer will design and maintain efficient distributed dataset operations, build indices for accelerated queries, and drive open-source community efforts, all while working remotely.
Key responsibilities
- Design and maintain efficient distributed Lance dataset operations
- Build efficient indices to enable predicate pushdown and accelerate queries in Spark, Ray, or Trino
- Drive open-source community efforts to integrate the Lance format with various data infrastructure systems
Required qualifications
- 10+ years of experience building high-performance databases, big data systems, or large-scale data services
- Deep understanding of internals of open-source Big Data or AI training systems (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Ray)
- Strong experience with high-performance computing in C++, Java, and/or Scala
- Experience with Rust (or willingness to learn it)
- Proven ability to move fast, work independently, and collaborate with a high-caliber team
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