Database Optimizer Engineer

Integrated Resources, Inc., is led by a seasoned team with combined decades in the industry. We deliver strategic workforce solutions that help you manage your talent and business more efficiently and effectively. Since launching in 1996, IRI has attracted, assembled and retained key employees who are experts in their fields. This has helped us expand into new sectors and steadily grow.

Job Description

Position: Database Optimizer Engineer

Duration: 6+ Months contract, renew every 6 months
Direct client: Immediate interview

Job summary:

Database Optimizer Engineer candidates are sought to conduct leading-edge data management system research and development for scalable and high-performance massively parallel processing (MPP) database systems to support analytic and transactional applications in the cloud. The ideal candidates must enjoy tackling technical challenges when evaluating a complicated distributed data processing system. The candidates should have significant database knowledge and experiences in the areas of query optimization and processing, transaction processing, and high availability. Other important attributes are versatility and a passion for building high-quality enterprise-class software systems.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Research and develop cutting-edge optimizer technologies for MPP database management systems, focusing on the ones that are cloud ready/friendly.
2. Analyze requirements and research related technologies in the optimizer areas for MPP DB.
3. Work with a team of architects and engineers to develop proof-of-concept systems and components.
4. Write and maintain detailed testing design and specifications.
5. Perform design and code reviews.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Minimum 5 years of experience in research and development of DBMS with Master in CS or relevant field, or 7 years of experience with a Bachelor degree.
2. Excellent documentation, organization, and communication skills.
3. Extensive experience with system software development.
4. Knowledge in database technologies including but not limited to parallel query optimization and processing, distributed transaction processing, workload management, and high availability features.
5. Knowledge in machine learning.
6. Knowledge in graph computing and information theory a plus.
7. Experience with PostgreSQL kernel a plus.
8. Must be a team player.
9. Self-motivated & detail-oriented.

NOTES/ Q&A FROM THE HIRING MANAGER

1. Write, test and deliver code.
2. MUST have coding experience, complex server code.
3. Server side (services) (optimizer within the server database).
4. Developing something.

Candidate Must Haves:

1. If they work for Oracle, IBM, SAP they are database companies than we know they work on similar products.