To Qualify for this Position you should be able to answer YES to all of the following:

• Are you willing to be a direct contributor to query optimization development?
• Have you invented or made significant improvements to a commercial grade database query planner for at least four years?
• Have you had at least 7 years of commercial software product development experience?
• Have you personally developed data management products?
• Do you have experience working with an early stage company that had 35 employees or less?
• Are you willing to work for an early stage company that has about 35 employees?
• Do you have a BS/MS in computer science and/or mathematics?
• Do you have at least 5 years of C and/or C++?

Position Description / Responsibilities:

• Design, code and unit test product features in the query optimization area
• Participate in code reviews and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback
• Improve quality of the existing product through bug fixing, refactoring and architectural improvements
• Participate in system integration with cross-functional teams
• Assist Services and Support teams with customer issues
• Provide internal training on new and existing features
• Write and maintain internal documentation on protocols, features, architecture and similar technical topics
• Effectively communicate feature specification to Publications and QA
• Take on leadership roles (as needed) within the Engineering department while continuing to perform as an individual contributor
• Balance complex requirements and constraints and clearly present tradeoffs to management
• Make trade-off decisions that balance product quality, time-to-market and functionality
• BS or Equivalent experience. Prefer BS or higher in a technical field (Computer Science is highly preferred)

REQUIRED Technical Skills:

• Minimum 6 years of recent, professional experience coding in C and/or C++ (C++ proficiency is highly desired)
• Minimum 4 years of recent, professional experience in object-orient design and programming (however, if expertise is with C, then disregard this requirement)
• Minimum 4 years experience developing a relational database query optimization
• Experienced in query optimization including cost model join optimization and query rewrite optimization
• Capable of marrying technical abilities to business needs
• BSCS

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