Senior Software Engineer

SingleStore is a real-time data platform that unifies transactions, analytics, search, and AI workloads, delivered as a fully managed cloud service through our Helios control plane.

Within Helios, the Aura Platform powers our next-generation compute and AI experience: Interactive Notebooks, Scheduled Jobs, Cloud Functions, PythonUDFs, Model Hosting, Inference APIs, and AI agents that run close to customer data while integrating deeply with SingleStoreDB. This platform is a core pillar of our GenAI strategy and underpins products like Aura Analyst, AI Functions, and ML Functions.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Aura AI Platform team. You will design, build, and operate the infrastructure that runs customer workloads (Notebooks, Jobs, Apps, AI Agents, and Model-serving) on top of SingleStore, across multiple regions and clouds.

You will work on services that manage container pools, resource scaling, routing, RBAC, Billing, Observability and secure network access between clusters. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy building distributed platforms, owning production systems, and enabling real-time AI and data applications at scale.

Role and Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain the platform that powers internal and customer‑facing intelligent services on SingleStore
• Lead complex, cross-functional technical initiatives from conception to deployment, mentoring other engineers along the way
• Work closely with product managers, designers, customers, and other engineers to ensure we deliver a high-quality experience
• Drive the team's engineering standards, championing best practices in system design, code quality, testing, observability, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure we scale reliably.
• Share on-call responsibilities and proactively improve the reliability, security, and cost-efficiency of our cloud infrastructure.

Required Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of experience working on a SaaS product
• Experience with working on distributed systems, ideally in programming languages such as Golang, Python or Rust
• Experience working with Kubernetes and/or containerized services
• Intellectual curiosity about investigating issues that impact business metrics
• Passion for building high-quality products that are robust and easy to maintain in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
• Strong communication skills with a passion for mentoring peers, fostering a collaborative team culture, and executing efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience building developer platforms, compute platforms, ML platforms, or serverless/container execution environments.
• Experience working with frontend web frameworks like React.
• Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading technical projects.

About SingleStore

SingleStore delivers our cloud-native database with the speed and scale to power the world’s data-intensive applications. With a distributed SQL database that introduces simplicity to your data architecture by unifying transactions and analytics, SingleStore empowers digital leaders to deliver exceptional, real-time data experiences to their customers. SingleStore is venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Sunnyvale, Raleigh, Seattle, Boston, London, Lisbon, Bangalore, Dublin and Kyiv.

Consistent with our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we value individuals with the ability to work on diverse teams and with a diverse range of people.

To all recruitment agencies: SingleStore does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to SingleStore employees. SingleStore is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.

SingleStore values individuals for their unique skills and experiences, and we’re proud to offer roles in a variety of locations across the United States. Salary is based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location, and is just one part of our total compensation and benefits package. Certain roles are also eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases and annual bonuses.

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