Database Engineer — Columnar Analytics Engineering NYC

ParadeDB is a transactional alternative to Elasticsearch built on Postgres. We build state‑of‑the‑art full‑text search and columnar analytics as a Postgres extension.

Companies like Modern Treasury, BILT Rewards, Alibaba Cloud, and UnifyGTM use ParadeDB to :

Add transactional guarantees to their search indexes

Perform JOINs on their search data

We're a small, focused team of engineers dedicated to creating an inclusive and enjoyable work environment. We have an office in San Francisco, with some team members distributed across the United States and Canada. We’re a Series A Company with a flat structure, strong investors, and lots of room for growth.

What we want

We're looking for an OLAP internals database engineer to join our team full‑time. The ideal candidate should have :

A solid foundation in data systems / internals.

Experience building analytical query engines, from columnar storage to query optimization (bonus points if you were responsible for building vectorized processing optimisations).

Proficiency in systems programming with C / C++ / Rust / Zig (bonus points for Rust).

Strong background in full‑text search systems and familiarity with Tantivy is a plus.

Familiarity with Postgres internals and pgrx is a plus.

We're seeking someone creative, independent, and excited by difficult technical challenges who can teach us as much as they learn from us. The ideal candidate will bring thoughtful opinions to the team, be excited to engage with and learn from customers, and be willing to wear many hats.

What we do

ParadeDB is a transactional alternative to Elasticsearch built on Postgres. We build state‑of‑the‑art full‑text search and columnar analytics as a Postgres extension. Companies like Modern Treasury, BILT Rewards, Alibaba Cloud, and UnifyGTM use ParadeDB to : eliminate ETL / change‑data capture tools, add transactional guarantees to their search indexes, and perform JOINs on their search data. We're a small, focused team of engineers dedicated to creating an inclusive and enjoyable work environment. We have an office in San Francisco, with some team members distributed across the United States and Canada. We’re a Series A Company with a flat structure, strong investors, and lots of room for growth.

What you want

You want to be part of the core team of a fast‑growing infrastructure startup, wear many hats, and interface directly with customers. You’re passionate about the OLAP ecosystem, Postgres, databases, and / or search technologies. You’re excited about diving deep into the internals of Postgres and writing high‑performance, safe Rust code to elevate Postgres for search and analytical workloads. You’re excited to build a state‑of‑the‑art analytical query engine in Postgres and grow to own a meaningful part of the ParadeDB product. You’re excited to learn about the internals of Tantivy and draw inspirations from systems like Apache DataFusion, and columnar file formats like Parquet / Arrow to inspire Postgres optimisations in ParadeDB. You believe in open‑source and want to

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