At Imply, our mission is to empower people and organizations to achieve more with their data. We believe that better insights lead to better decisions, and that the right technology can remove barriers, spark innovation and create lasting impact. In addition to our successful database business, we’re building the industry’s first observability warehouse, Imply Lumi. Built by the creators of Apache Druid, Lumi lets organizations store more data, support more use cases and spend less for observability. Imply Lumi is a high-performance, cost-efficient data layer built to decouple existing observability tools with zero disruption
In this role, you will help redefine what is possible with observability and security data. As part of the Engineering Team you will play an important role in bringing Imply Lumi to life. Lumi delivers lightning fast queries, significant cost savings and seamless integration with leading observability technologies while giving customers the freedom to innovate without vendor lock-in. You will be a part of the team innovating and building this first-in-class technology that allows our customers to unlock new levels of speed, scale and value from their data
Backed by leading investors including a16z and Bessemer Venture Partners, Imply is on a fast growth trajectory, transforming how organizations manage and gain insights from their observability and security data. Our customers, including Pepsi, Reddit, Roblox, Salesforce, and others, rely on our technology to power faster decisions, reduce costs, and unlock new possibilities. Come join a team of innovators and problem-solvers who are reshaping the future of data! The Role We are looking for a strong engineer to join our ecosystem team. This team works on ingestion and query execution stack over the observability data layer. In this role, you will be expanding the query capabilities with a very high focus on query performance and reliability. We are looking for engineers who have a growth mindset, performance nerd and enjoy working on systems
Responsibilities Build scalable and performant Ingestion plugins to get the data into Lumi
Build new functions and expressions to query the data from Lumi Work on making the query engine highly performant
Support the team through code and design reviews Be on-call for any escalations pertaining to ecosystem team Requirements Working knowledge of distributed systems At least 3 years of experience working as a backend developer Experience with one or more of the programming languages such as Java, Go, C, C++, etc
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience) Bonus Points Past experience working on internals of a database