Staff Software Engineer
Dremio
Staff Software Engineer
Dremio
Open data lakehouse for in-place analytics
Dremio is the unified lakehouse platform for self-service analytics and AI, serving hundreds of global enterprises, including Maersk, Amazon, Regeneron, NetApp, and S&P Global. Customers rely on Dremio for cloud, hybrid, and on-prem lakehouses to power their data mesh, data warehouse migration, data virtualization, and unified data access use cases. Based on open source technologies, including Apache Iceberg and Apache Arrow, Dremio provides an open lakehouse architecture enabling the fastest time to insight and platform flexibility at a fraction of the cost. Learn more at www.dremio.com.
About the role
Dremio's Query Planner & Reflections (QPR) team owns the SQL planner and optimizer — built on Apache Calcite — and the reflections substitution engine that transparently rewrites queries to hit pre-computed materializations instead of raw source data. As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll set technical direction for this system: driving ambiguous, cross-team initiatives, raising the bar through design and code review, and helping other engineers.
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Dremio provides an open data lakehouse platform that lets enterprises run self-service analytics directly on data lake storage without copying data into warehouses. It combines Dremio Sonar, a high-performance SQL query engine with an integrated semantic layer and Data Reflections for acceleration, with Dremio Arctic for Iceberg metadata management and Git-like branching to isolate work. It differentiates itself with in-place lake querying, an open-core model offering free and enterprise editions, and features for AI-assisted analytics through the Agentic Lakehouse. The goal is to help large organizations modernize their data infrastructure by enabling fast, self-service analytics with governance and AI-enabled insights.
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