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CrateDB, a distributed time-series database company, is seeking a Senior Ecosystem Database Engineer to develop and maintain drivers and adapters for CrateDB while collaborating closely with the open-source community and founding engineers. This role involves working on public GitHub projects to build integrations with major frameworks and tools including SQLAlchemy, pandas, Dask, Apache Kafka, Flink, Superset, Airflow, and Grafana.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and maintain drivers for CrateDB (JDBC, Python/SQLAlchemy, and others)
- Build and improve connections to external tools (Grafana, Tableau, Airflow, etc.)
- Enhance PostgreSQL compatibility of CrateDB and its ecosystem
- Create migration tools for transitioning data to/from other database systems
- 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
- Maintain internal administrative tools (crash CLI, Admin UI)
This is a hands-on role for someone who is passionate about open-source software and can work independently while maintaining high standards of code quality, documentation, and communication. You'll work directly with founding engineers in a collaborative, distributed environment.
The company offers remote work flexibility (direct positions in Germany/Austria or through Remote.com globally), competitive compensation, flexible working hours, perks including flexible holidays and education support, 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
- Solid understanding of standards and protocols (HTTP, PG Wire Protocol, Python DB API, JDBC)
- Experience with test-driven development
- Knowledge of versioning, packaging, shipping, and production software operations in polyglot environments
- Comfortable working with relational databases and SQL
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
- Self-directed, hands-on engineer capable of full-stack development with focus on quality, documentation, and communication
- Craftsmanship mindset for continuously improving existing codebases
NICE TO HAVE:
- Existing open-source contributions
- Experience with message bus systems (AMQP, Kafka, MQTT, ZeroMQ)
- DevOps experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
