Principal Engineer – Distributed Database

September 5, 2025

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Description

Our team has an immediate permanent opening for a Principal Engineer.

Responsibilities:

  • Research and development of distributed, highly available transaction processing database management system focusing on algorithms for scale up and scale out.
  • Work with a team of architects and engineers to develop proof-of-concept systems and components across the data manager, buffer manager and transaction processing components.
  • Investigate and design new data structures and algorithms focusing on lockless and NUMA aware approaches on the latest and state of the art hardware technology.
  • Continuous enhancements on the distributed database system to fulfill customer requirements for self-tuning under differing workload conditions.
  • Mentor junior colleagues on algorithm design, data structure and software engineering aspects focusing on high performance scalable code.
  • Work with QA and continuous integration teams to drive a quality overall solution though a combination of automated unit tests, functional testing and system testing of the solution.

What you’ll bring to the team:

  • Proficient in C and C++ programming.
  • 10+ years’ experience with design and development of a distributed database, or storage system, or file system, or cache system.
  • Experience in open source community is an asset.
  • Excellent documentation, organization and communication skills.
  • Publication history and patent success is an asset.
  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications; Master’s or PhD is an asset.

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Company

Huawei

Location

Markham

Country

Canada

Salary

100.000

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