Full-Time

Software Engineer Database System

Posted on 10/31/2025

CelerData

CelerData

51-200 employees

Cloud-native real-time analytics platform using StarRocks

No salary listed

Menlo Park, CA, USA

Hybrid

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Apache Spark
SQL
Java
C/C++
Requirements
  • At least 3 years of professional experience in developing commercial or open-source software applications.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields is required (Master’s or PhD preferred).
  • Advanced proficiency in C++ and Java, with a proven track record in designing and implementing complex functionalities in performance-critical environments.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems, including transaction management and consistency models.
  • Evidence of active participation in open-source projects or a deep understanding of technologies such as StarRocks, Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Spark, Trino, or similar big data solutions.
Responsibilities
  • Develop, enhance, and maintain the StarRocks database system, ensuring it meets rigorous performance and reliability standards.
  • Implement advanced software features and technology enhancements to keep StarRocks at the forefront as a SQL engine for composable lakehouses.
  • Deliver robust, scalable code that meets the demanding technical requirements of major enterprise clients.
  • Analyze and address challenges related to fault tolerance, high availability, performance, and scalability.
  • Collaborate with external contributors from the open-source community to integrate improvements and ensure that our technology remains cutting-edge and comprehensive.
Desired Qualifications
  • Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field is preferred.

CelerData provides a cloud-native platform for real-time analytics built on the StarRocks database. Its service, CelerData Cloud, unifies data from data lakes and other sources so users can analyze both historical and real-time data without building complex pipelines. The product is a fully managed service where compute and storage scale independently, delivering high-concurrency, low-latency queries and integrating with cloud data lakes and formats like Iceberg, Hudi, and Delta Lake. The goal is to help organizations run fast, scalable analytics on live and historical data in one platform for BI and dashboards.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • StarRocks adopted by Airbnb, Lenovo, Trip.com for pipeline simplification.
  • Cloud-native architecture scales compute-storage independently across S3, GCS.
  • $50M Series B funding accelerates CelerData Cloud enterprise growth.

What critics are saying

  • StarRocks forks launch competing services, eroding CelerData control by 2028.
  • ClickHouse 25.3 beats StarRocks JOINs, prompting Airbnb switch in 2027.
  • Trino dominates lakehouse queries via Snowflake, starving CelerData users by 2029.

What makes CelerData unique

  • CelerData builds on StarRocks for sub-second real-time analytics on lakehouses.
  • SIMD-optimized engine delivers 3-5X better performance on complex JOINs.
  • Version 3 supports Iceberg, Hudi, Delta Lake without data ingestion.

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Benefits

Professional Development Budget

Flexible Work Hours

Remote Work Options

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