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You will be part of the Actian Zen engineering team. Actian Zen is the NoSQL/SQL data store for Edge/IoT, web services, and traditional desktop applications.
This is a senior level position. The primary focus will be on enhancements and maintenance of the Zen database engine and related components. All members of the team are expected to learn about the product in general and to contribute to other areas as needed.
Required Skills
- A minimum of 5 years software development experience with C and C++.
- A degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Proactive and good problem solving skills.
- Good oral and written communication skills; able to communicate effectively with cross-functional personnel.
- Comfortable with software-development process, including build, change management, unit testing, and working with QA team.
Desirable Skills
- Knowledge of data-management internals, including ISAM-like record store algorithms; relational database concepts, SQL language, syntax, and dialects (eg. SQL Server, Postgres); and relational data access methods (eg. ODBC, JDBC).
- Experience developing code for multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOS).
- Diverse experience with a variety of programming languages, development tools, technology frameworks, application servers, and databases.
- Experience with scripting languages (especially Python) and build systems.
- POSIX networking.
- I18N, especially language localization and string handling.
- Debugging live processes in a QA environment, not just from IDE.
- Worked with a million-line code base.
- Strong OS and system-level knowledge as it pertains to performance (both time and space) including process memory consumption, multi-thread scalability, and transaction throughput.
- Technical leadership skills including product architecture guidance, product/project decision-making, balancing long- and short-term goals and development and testing process guidance.
- Priority will be given to cover letters that call out strengths and weaknesses as compared to this posting.
We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
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