Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Storage & Backup Restore

Job Description

Job Description

Join us as we scale our business by building on our tremendous success around the world. The massive database market is going to double over the next few years (the IDC estimates it to be $119B+ by 2025) and TiDB is a global player positioned as a major disruptor with TiDB Database and Database as a Service offering. TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed SQL database for elastic scale and real-time analytics. Large and high-growth organizations in markets as varied as financial services, logistics, gaming, e-commerce and software as a service have successfully deployed and expanded their TiDB footprint on mission-critical applications. Our strong open-source community roots (37,000+ stars on GitHub), innovative products and inclusive culture draw passionate and dedicated people to our company. Learn more about TiDB careers and join our team to be at the forefront of innovation and growth.

Role Overview

PingCAP is a world-leading, one-stop, real-time HTAP database solution provider. Our mission is to build a database of the future, made by developers for developers. PingCAP's primary product, TiDB, is trusted by industry leaders and adopted by over 1,500 companies across multiple market verticals.

Our strong open-source community roots (36,000 stars on GitHub), innovative products, and inclusive culture draw passionate and dedicated people to our company. Join us as we scale our business and replicate our success around the world.

Responsibilities

Develop the next-generation Cloud-Native Database(TiDB) storage layer (e.g. TiKV) that is extremely scalable (e.g. PB level), optimized for the cloud environment and easy for backup and restore;

Design and develop reliable, scalable and efficient data backup and restore pipeline, including fast PiTR (Point in-time Recovery) ability upon massive dataset, as well as next-generation second-level backup solution based on native S3;

Analyze and improve TiDB's performance, stability, and scalability in the cloud environment;

Troubleshoot and resolve customers' critical issues such as performance, stability, or scalability;

Influence and lead the team with expertise and engineering excellence;

Built and improved engineering practice for DBAAS infrastructure;

Mentor junior engineers and help to grow the whole team's technical capability.

Qualifications

Five (5) years of experience in software development / system development or related;

Three (3) years of experience in database, storage, and / or distributed system development;

Experience with cloud technologies, such as AWS, GCP, and / or Azure;

Experience with container orchestration technology, e.g. Kubernetes；

Aptability to remote collaboration and work models.

We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. Come advance with us! In keeping with our values, no employee or applicant will face discrimination / harassment based on : race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. TiDB also strives to prevent other, subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (e.g., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our organization. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at TiDB.