Current Openings

Description:
Seeking Sr. Database Query Optimizer Engineer who will:
- Research, design, architect, and maintain advanced query optimization algorithms
- Provide guidance to intermediate engineers in the query optimization area
- Enhance quality and reliability of our product line
- Increase effectiveness of our engineering team as a whole through joint activities with other team members
- Improve our engineering process through direct participation, observation, feedback and creativity

Specific Responsibilities include:
- 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

Requirement:
- Capable of marrying technical abilities to business needs
- Able to effectively communicate technology issues both within and outside of the Engineering department
- Experienced and skilled in object-oriented design and programming
- Proficient in C++
- Experienced in query optimization including cost model join optimization and query rewrite optimization
- Minimum 6 years of recent, professional experience coding in C and/or C++
- Minimum 4 years of recent, professional experience in object-orient design and programming
- Minimum 4 years experience developing a relational database query optimization
- BS or better in a technical field (Computer Science preferred)

Required Personal Skills
- Organized, methodical, and detail oriented
- Ability to manage own schedule and work independently
- Ability to balance complex requirements and constraints and clearly present tradeoffs to management
- Ability to learn and constructively synthesize information on product functionality and uses from different sources
- Capable of taking on leadership roles within the Engineering department while continuing to perform as an individual contributor
- Team player, able to work with both technical and creative people
- Ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities
- Motivated and committed to excellence
- Ability to make trade-off decisions that balance product quality, time-to-market and functionality