Lucenia · 1 week ago
Senior Software Engineer - Data Plane
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior LevelLucenia is a company focused on distributed indexing and query capabilities. The Senior Software Engineer - Data Plane will work with a globally distributed team to improve data-intensive features, fix bugs, and enhance testing coverage while collaborating with community members on various issues.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
You’ll work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on distributed indexing and query capabilities of Lucene
You'll be an expert in the engine area and everyone will turn to you when they have a question
You'll improve those areas based on your questions and your instincts
You'll be a full time Lucenia contributor, building data intensive new features, fixing exciting bugs and increasing the testing coverage, all while making the code easier to understand
Sometimes you'll need to invent a new algorithm or data structure, or find one and implement it
Sometimes you'll need to get close to the operating system and hardware
You'll work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests, sometimes triaging them and handing them off to other experts and sometimes handling them yourself
You'll write idiomatic modern Java and possibly Rust!
Qualification
Required
Strong core Java skills and conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs
Excellent understanding of concurrent and parallel programming principles
Proven background in applied data processing (data structures, algorithms)
Familiarity with low-level abstractions in OS
Ability to work with a high level of autonomy, taking on projects and guiding them from beginning to end
Solid software engineering foundations, with a proven track record of designing and delivering high-quality solutions
Comfortable developing collaboratively, giving and receiving feedback on code and approaches and APIs
Experience using several data storage technologies like Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Preferred
Built things with Lucene before
Worked on index and search data structures technology
Experience designing, leading and owning cross-functional initiatives
Worked with open source projects and familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration
Past working experience with database, search engine, OS or cloud service development
Company
Lucenia
Lucenia is an enterprise search engine based on Lucene, the same open source library that powers Elasticsearch, and founded by the original creator of Amazon's OpenSearch.
Founded in 2024
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase