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CrateDB is seeking a Senior Ecosystem Database Engineer to develop and maintain drivers, adapters, and integrations for CrateDB, a distributed time-series database. You will work directly with founding engineers on public GitHub projects, collaborating closely with the open-source community to improve CrateDB's integration with popular frameworks and tools including SQLAlchemy, pandas, Dask, Apache Kafka, Flink, Superset, Airflow, and Grafana.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and maintain database drivers (JDBC, Python/SQLAlchemy, and others)
- Build and maintain connections to external tools (Grafana, Tableau, Airflow, etc.)
- Develop internal administrative tools (crash CLI, Admin UI)
- Improve PostgreSQL compatibility of CrateDB and its ecosystem
- Create migration tools for moving data to/from other database systems and storage formats
- Write and maintain technical documentation including reference architectures and integration examples
- Collaborate with the open-source community and technical partners on joint projects
- Support Product Managers with technical requirements
This is a hands-on, full-stack role requiring craftsmanship in continuously improving existing codebases, shipping quality software components, and ensuring strong documentation and communication throughout the development process.
The company offers a remote workplace with direct positions available through entities in Germany and Austria, or through Remote.com in your home country. Benefits include competitive compensation, flexible working hours, flexible holidays, fitness and education perks, and participation in an Employee Stock Options Plan.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong knowledge of at least Python and Java; experience with additional languages (Rust, C++, Golang, Swift, Zig) preferred
- Knowledge of standards and protocols including HTTP, PG Wire Protocol, Python DB API, and JDBC
- Experience with test-driven development
- Knowledge of versioning, packaging, shipping in polyglot environments, and production operations
- Comfortable working with relational databases and SQL
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
- Self-directed, hands-on engineer capable of driving development efforts forward independently
NICE-TO-HAVE:
- Existing open-source contributions
- Knowledge of message bus systems (AMQP, Kafka, MQTT, ZeroMQ) and broker implementations
- DevOps experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
