Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Analytics | Canada | Remote
Core
Building an AI-native data intelligence system and underlying storage layer for a general-purpose data platform to serve AI agents and enterprise users.
Role type
Senior IC backend engineer (databases & analytics)
Builds
Multi-tenant database service, ingestion/query execution pipelines, and agent-facing data retrieval APIs
Domain
Cloud-native observability, AI infrastructure, distributed systems
Required skills
Distributed systems design, query engine development, data warehouse/lake architecture, cloud-native environments, observability tooling, golang/C++/Rust
Preferred skills
Distributed query engines, data engineering tools
Technologies
golang, C++, Rust, AWS, GCP, Azure
Responsibilities
Design and implement distributed query execution and storage formats; build multi-tenant service architecture with isolation and quotas; develop APIs for AI agent data retrieval; operate and instrument database services with metrics and traces; define engineering practices and service boundaries for a new product area
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC