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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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