Distinguished Architect – Distributed Database

September 5, 2025

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Description

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Distinguished Architect.


About the team:

The Distributed Data Storage and Management Lab leads research in distributed data systems, aiming to develop next-generation cloud serverless products that encompass core infrastructure and databases. This lab addresses various data challenges, including cloud-native disaggregated databases, pay-by-query user models, and optimizing low-level data transfers via RDMA. Teams within this lab create advanced cloud serverless data infrastructure and implement cutting-edge networking technologies for Huawei’s global AI infrastructure.


About the job:

  • Lead research and development of distributed, highly available transaction processing database management system focusing on algorithms for scale up and scale out.

  • Lead 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.

About the ideal candidate:

  • Proficient in C and C++ programming.

  • 10+ years’ experience with design, architecture, anddevelopment of a distributed database, storage system, 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; Master’s or PhD is an asset.

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Company

Huawei Canada

Location

Markham

Country

Canada

Salary

125.000

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