Data Systems Engineer

2 days ago


Seattle, Washington, United States MotherDuck Full time

We are on a mission to transform the way people interact with and understand their data at MotherDuck. As a Data Systems Engineer, you will play a key role in building out our infrastructure, scaling operational maturity, and contributing directly to a delightful product experience.

Our team is a diverse mix of passionate, collaborative, and empathetic data industry veterans from top tech companies. We're geographically distributed across 4 engineering hubs, spanning the US and Europe.

As a member of our Platforms team, you'll build and optimize the runtime that manages our DuckDBs running customer queries. Challenges include dynamic resource allocation, custom storage formats, state management, and observability.

You have a passion for partnering with internal engineering teams, cross-functional partners, and customers to weave together a coherent system. You know what it takes to build a distributed system that is reliable, efficient, secure, and observable but also how to launch and iterate in a fast-moving environment. You thrive through the full lifecycle of a feature, from clarifying product requirements and key metrics to carrying the pager and investing in making it less error-prone.

Core Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and care for the server-side infrastructure for MotherDuck.
  • Write clean, well-documented, and maintainable code that follows established coding standards and best practices.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot production issues, and work to resolve them in a timely manner.
  • Embrace feedback, empower your teammates, and invest in the team's success.
  • Go beyond the job description to ensure we build an extraordinary product for our users.

We're seeking individuals with a strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture. Your experience should include cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, SQL databases like PostgreSQL and DuckDB, and programming languages like C++.

What We Provide
  • Competitive compensation and stock options.
  • 100% paid medical, dental, and vision for employees.
  • 80% paid medical, dental, and vision for dependents.
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off.
  • 401k plan.
  • Regular company-wide and team offsites at various locations.
  • Hybrid work environment.

We aim to build a diverse team and will strongly consider applicants who bring many of the requirements plus have other experiences which round out their qualifications. Our salary range is $140K - $240K.



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