Full-Time
Software Engineer
Backend
Posted on 10/30/2025
Rill Data
11-50 employees
BI tool with embedded in-memory database
No salary listed
Remote in India
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- 5+ years of experience building distributed fault-tolerant systems such as Cassandra, Kafka, Pinot, Clickhouse, ElasticSearch, MongoDb, Druid, or Zookeeper.
- Experience developing high concurrency, performance-oriented Java systems.
- Using standard tools to tune, profile, and debug Java Virtual Machines (JVM).
- A solid grasp of good software engineering practices such as code reviews and a deep focus on testability and quality.
- Strong communication skills: ability to explain complex technical concepts to designers, support staff, and other engineers.
- Previous experience contributing to Open source projects is a plus
- Exposure to Big Data systems such as Hadoop, Presto, Spark, ElasticSearch, or relational databases like MySQL or Postgres is a strong plus.
- Contributing to Open Source Apache Druid development
- Building scalable ingestion systems that can handle billions of events
- Improving Druid query functionality to improve performance and add new features
- Manage and Scale hosted Saas offering that provides fault tolerance and consistency in at scale for 1000s of nodes
Rill Data provides a business intelligence platform with an embedded in-memory database, enabling fast data processing and instant query results. Users can perform complex data transformations and aggregations from multiple sources, helping them identify trends and make real-time, data-driven decisions. The in-memory architecture reduces cloud storage costs and supports local development and global deployment with Git workflow capabilities. The platform targets organizations of all sizes, including digital marketing teams and data analysts, who need speedy, responsive analytics. Rill Data likely uses a subscription or usage-based pricing model to generate recurring revenue. The key differentiator is the built-in in-memory database that speeds up analysis and lowers storage costs, combined with deployment flexibility and strong workflow features.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$12M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2020
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Cloudera partnership validates Apache Druid integration for enterprise time-series and operational analytics workloads.
- AI Chat interface and MCP Server integration position Rill as self-service BI becomes achievable.
- Real-time streaming ingestion from events, logs, and APIs addresses product analytics and monitoring demand.
What critics are saying
- Sub-$5M revenue with 26 employees indicates stalled growth against VC-backed competitors like Hex.
- Lightweight positioning alienates enterprise buyers preferring full-featured suites like Tableau and Power BI.
- DuckDB local deployments cannot scale to billions of rows, forcing migration to Druid or competitors.
What makes Rill Data unique
- Embedded in-memory database enables sub-second queries on billions of rows without separate infrastructure.
- BI-as-Code architecture with Git workflows supports local development and global deployment seamlessly.
- AI-powered Explain feature auto-investigates data anomalies, reducing manual exploration time significantly.
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Today Rill Data is thrilled to launch Rill Cloud in public beta, a big step towards making its vision of “data lake to dashboard in minutes” a reality for software engineers everywhere.
For example, Rill, an open-source business intelligence tool, has created a CURL script for downloading events related to specific contracts and launching interactive, editable dashboards.
Rill simplifies the dashboard itself, taking away a lot of the design decisions that often challenge data analysts.
Cloudera has partnered with Rill Data, an expert in metrics at any scale, as Cloudera’s preferred ISV partner to provide technical expertise and support services for Apache Druid customers.