Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Analytics | Ireland | Remote

Overview

Build the database layer for an AI-native, general-purpose data platform with OLAP and OTLP capabilities. Own database components and help evolve the system from early internal use to production-grade SaaS.

What you'll do

• Design, implement, test, and operate ingestion, query planning, distributed query execution, and storage components.
• Build multi-tenant database services with tenant isolation, usage tracking, quotas, audit logs, and background jobs.
• Develop APIs and database interfaces for AI agents, tools, CLIs, and internal applications.
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, traces, alerts, and dashboards.
• Shape architecture, service boundaries, storage choices, API contracts, and deployment patterns.
• Partner across product and infrastructure teams to balance experimentation with reliability.

What you'll need

• Experience building production-grade, user-facing software systems.
• Experience with distributed systems, catalogs and table formats, and query engines.
• Mastery of a language such as Golang, C++, or Rust.
• Experience delivering software used by users in production.
• Exposure to cloud-native environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience using observability tools to troubleshoot system behavior.
• Ability to communicate effectively, take ownership, and work through ambiguity.

Nice to have

• Experience building distributed query engines.
• Experience building data warehouses or data lakes.
• Experience building data engineering tools.

Details

• Remote opportunity for applicants in Ireland, Spain, Sweden, the UK, or Germany.
• Base compensation in the Republic of Ireland is EUR 104,000–130,000 yearly.