Principal Rust Software Engineer (Databases)
Company: black.ai
Location: Seattle
Posted on: March 30, 2025
Job Description:
Building data-driven AI applications and agents is too complex,
even for advanced developers. At Spice AI, we're making it simpler
by helping developers combine code, data, and AI to build truly
intelligent, decision-making systems. Our mission is to make this
as easy as creating a modern web page.We created , a portable AI
database written in Rust with a unified SQL interface to query,
materialize, and accelerate data from any source, co-located with
machine learning models. By bringing compute, data, and models
together, Spice OSS enables secure AI-Feedback-Loops
(AI-Fly-Wheels) for apps and agents to learn and adapt. We just of
Spice.ai OSS.We're also building the , offering managed,
cloud-scale Spice.ai OSS along with tools for high-performance SQL,
machine learning training, and inference in an interconnected AI
backend-as-a-service.At Spice AI, we hire for . We're looking for
exceptional, top-tier engineers - A players - who are driven to
solve hard problems and push the boundaries of what's possible for
AI.We're looking for a Principal Rust Software Engineer to lead
database development in Spice.ai OSS. In this role, you'll design
and build high-performance database engine features in Spice.ai,
Apache DataFusion, Arrow, Iceberg, and duckdb-rs.If you're
passionate about open source, distributed systems, and database
internals, we want to hear from you.Who we are looking for
- You are an exceptional engineer.
- You are a problem solver. You start customer problems and
figure out how to solve them with technology.
- You think differently. You do not accept the status-quo. You
challenge the current model of the world and take leaps of faith to
build it better for everyone.
- You are positive. Instead of focusing on limitations, you ask
what's possible.
- You care about meaningful work. Your work is more than a
job.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and unknowns, and in these
situations, you lead by creating clarity.
- You are passionate about high performance and have high
standards.What we're looking for
- 2+ years professional Rust experience or 5+ yrs professional
C/C++ experience.
- Experience in designing, implementing, scaling, and shipping
production database-engines, distributed, and data systems.
- A track record of strong design, architectural, engineering,
and product decisions.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to ramp up quickly and hit the ground running.
- Ideally, experience contributing to open-source projects.
- Experience with Apache infra, CNCF-stack, or cloud-native
development.In this role, you'll
- Work side-by-side with the founders as a leader and outstanding
contributor in the open-source project.
- Contribute to designing and building the Cloud Platform, and
data platforms.
- Take ownership of initiatives to improve our offerings and
deliver exceptional developer experiences.Your first 90-days
- Your first month - ramp up and contribute meaningful
improvements to the .
- 30-60 days - take technical and engineering ownership of an
entire feature area.
- 60-90 days - propose and execute on aligned technical strategy
going forward.About Spice AIFounded in June 2021 by Microsoft and
GitHub alumni Luke Kim and Phillip LeBlanc, Spice AI creates
technology to help developers build intelligent applications and
agents that learn and adapt.Before co-founding Spice AI, Luke was
the co-creator of Azure Incubations in the Office of the Azure CTO,
where he led cross-functional engineering teams to create and
develop technologies including and .Spice AI is backed by some of
the top industry angel investors and leaders, including , , CTO of
Microsoft Azure, and , CEO of GitHub, who is also on the
board.Spice AI also has notable VC backing from , , , and .Learn
more:- On and - About the team at - The Spice.ai general
availability - The Spice.ai OSS project
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