InfluxData - Software Engineer, Database Reliability & Performance

Remote - Canada, United States$100k - $168k+ Equity2w ago

Remote Senior NA Utilities Software Engineer Data Engineer Rust C++Reporting Claude Docker

Requirements

• Coding Proficiency: Deep hands-on experience developing using Rust (highly preferred) or a desire to learn Rust with system experience in [C++|Golang]. • Strong QA and Testing Experience: Proven track record in performance, regression, and reliability validation frameworks. Ability to confidently establish repeatable baselines for distributed data systems. • Solid understanding of CS fundamentals with minimum Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of work experience. • Comfort using modern AI assistants and tools (e.g., Claude) for quick troubleshooting, on-the-fly utility generation, and analyzing logs and pattern anomalies at scale. • Competency working with containerized environments and orchestration frameworks like Docker and Kubernetes, alongside modern CI utilities such as CircleCI. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively work asynchronously. • Building distributed systems. • Working with database internals and various cloud vendors. • Participating in an on-call rotation. • Working with distributed products and teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute automated reliability, regression, and correctness test workflows within the CI/CD pipeline. • Implement and maintain repeatable test contracts utilizing frameworks like internal tools to validate query accuracy, product lifecycle, database compactions, and recoverability. • Differentiate between standard functional validation and exhaustive reliability testing—simulating real-world customer workloads, database restarts, memory exhaustion, and deployments. • Collaborate closely with core developers to convert high-level engineering specifications and customer root-cause analyses into formal, repeatable test constraints. • Investigate complex performance data variations, capture system profiles, and proactively identify architectural bottlenecks before production deployment. • Be part of an on-call rotation when need arises. • Develop and Review automated reports on a regular cadence to flag suspicious query latency regressions, data divergence bugs, or resource starvation issues to relevant engineering stakeholders.

Benefits

• U.S. Zone 1$120K – $168K • Offers Equity • Offers Benefits • U.S. Zone 2$100K – $140K • Offers Equity • Offers Benefits • InfluxData takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into two zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The offered starting salary will be determined based on the candidate’s job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Ranges are evaluated on a periodic basis and are subject to change at the Company’s discretion. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • LinkedIn, Github, personal website, etc. • Confirm - I am in one of the listed locations • Do Not Confirm - I am NOT located in one of the locations stated above • We may use AI to transcribe and summarize our interviews, which lessens the reliance on the note-taking skills of an interviewer and mitigates the hiring delays and potential bias caused by incomplete documentation of interview feedback. • While we encourage people to use AI systems during their role to help them work faster and more effectively, please do not use AI assistants during the application process. We want to understand your personal interest in InfluxData without mediation through an AI system, and we also want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communications skills. • Please indicate "Yes" if you have read the above and agree. • InfluxData uses third party service providers such as Tofu to review employment application information. These service providers may aggregate and anonymize your application information to improve their services, including to inform their AI tools. By submitting your information or application, you consent to InfluxData's disclosure of your information to such service providers for these purposes. If you do not want your information to be processed in this manner, please do not submit any information. • Acknowledge/Confirm • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran