Senior Software Engineer - Data Replication

About us

Join us as we scale our business by building on our tremendous success around the world. The massive database market is going to double over the next few years (the IDC estimates it to be $119B+ by 2025) and TiDB is a global player positioned as a major disruptor with TiDB Database and Database as a Service offering. TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed SQL database for elastic scale and real-time analytics. Large and high-growth organizations in markets as varied as financial services, logistics, gaming, e-commerce and software as a service have successfully deployed and expanded their TiDB footprint on mission-critical applications. Our strong open-source community roots (37,000+ stars on GitHub), innovative products and inclusive culture draw passionate and dedicated people to our company. Learn more about TiDB careers and join our team to be at the forefront of innovation and growth.

Role Overview

The data replication engineering team focuses on the open-source project TiCDC (https://github.com/pingcap/tiflow) maintenance, new features development and stability improvements. The TiCDC project aims to extend the ecosystem boundary of distributed database TiDB (https://github.com/pingcap/tidb). Our team will explore the latest research, design detailed technical documentation and implement them to enhance the product. We are investigating the most effective dataflow computation architecture to ensure data replication correctness, high performance, fault tolerance and stability.

We are seeking senior software engineers who are passionate about problem-solving, take each product bug as a new challenge, enjoy the journey to root cause and fix the issues, and what’s more – with the mindset to think strategically and develop algorithms to prevent similar failures from occurring the next time. In this role, you will get the opportunity to work on the most interesting real-world scenarios and make a visible and impactful difference for the end-users.

Responsibilities

-Design detailed technical documentation and develop new features of the dataflow system;

-Explore the latest research and industrial implementation;

-Analyze database production issues and fix product defects;

-Actively prioritize bugs and multi-task on critical escalations;

-Drive and implement database product quality enhancements through multiple dimensions and with different stakeholders;

Qualifications

-Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related degree or equivalent practical experience;

-Hands-on experience building industrial-strength software;

-Knowledge about distributed systems and databases;

-Experience with one or more of the following programming languages: C, C++, Java, Go, Rust.

-Experience in Database Internals is a big plus;

-Experience in developing enterprise software in a global environment;

-Experience in dataflow/streaming system knowledge;

-Cloud-facing development experience;

-Strong operating system and distributed system knowledge;

-Excellent troubleshooting experience on Linux / Unix environments;

-Comfortable with multi-tasking;

-Strong written and verbal communication skills;

-Strong customer/stakeholder empathy;

We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. Come advance with us! In keeping with our values, no employee or applicant will face discrimination/harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. TiDB also strives to prevent other, subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (e.g., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our organization. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at TiDB.