Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Database)

Design and deliver improvements to the database, ensuring correctness, reliability, and performance.

• •Who We Are: Materialize is the context engine for AI agents and applications.
• •It lets engineering teams use SQL to transform siloed operational data into up-to-the-second, trustworthy views into any element of their business.
• •Use Materialize to deliver fresh context to AI agents, power data-intensive UIs, and create low-latency, event-driven architectures that drive microservices and core business processes.
• •Materialize is trusted by General Mills, Bilt Rewards, and Crane Worldwide Logistics to solve their most pressing operational data challenges while building a live data foundation for their AI transformation.
• •Our team spans the US (with a NYC headquarters), Canada, and EMEA.
• •Investors: Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
• •About the Role Our database technology sits at the heart of the Materialize product—a product that transforms years of cutting-edge academic research into the missing element of today’s data architecture.
• •As a member of our Database team, you will join a team of ~10 incredible engineers focused on solving ambitious systems problems in service of delivering this remarkable product to our users.
• •Recent examples of the work the Database team focuses on include: evergreen efforts to drive down freshness & responsiveness while continuing to deliver correct, consistent results; making each layer of the system more easily scalable; building the right primitives to integrate with the varied software development lifecycles of our users; unifying memory and disk through transparent use of swap; making our release process more predictable and reliable; writing clear documentation both internally and externally; improving observability and debugging tooling; and deleting lots of no-longer-needed code.
• •This role is based in our NYC office (by Astor Place), with an expectation of ≥3 days per week in person.