Senior/Staff C++ Developer
Job Description
Hydrolix is looking for an experienced C++ developer who enjoys the challenges and rewards of being a crucial member of a small, experienced team at a fast-growing cloud data platform startup. At Hydrolix, you’ll find a uniquely fulfilling opportunity to see your work in production powering large scale data infrastructure. Your contributions will directly impact our customers on a massive scale, shaping the future of our core product. Our customers, typically processing billions of events a day, value our cloud-native platform for its reliability and scalability. As demand in the market grows, so will the amount of data we need to be able to ingest, store, and query. That’s where you come in. This is a rare opportunity to work on something truly innovative, where your contribution can make a difference for some of the biggest properties on the internet.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop high-quality, scalable C++ software (C++23) for efficient management and processing of large-scale data.
- Address complex database issues and boost performance for stream processing and multithreaded applications using innovative indexing techniques, advanced compression algorithms, and modern asynchronous programming practices.
- Build upon large-scale, well-maintained open-source projects, incorporating bleeding-edge optimizations.
- Participate in product and architecture discussions.
- Collaborate effectively within and across teams to solve challenging technical problems.
- Advocate for and implement industry best practices in software development to ensure high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code.
- Provide guidance and support to team members, fostering their growth through code reviews, regular mentorship, constructive feedback, and sharing expertise.
Required Qualifications:
- Extensive hands-on experience in modern C++ programming, debugging, and performance tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent low-level software systems.
- Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to comprehend and work within large, complex codebases, making precise and impactful modifications.
- Experience in network/socket programming (eventloops, async callback handling) and multi-threaded programming.
- Experience with distributed systems (consistency, availability, scalability, and fault tolerance).
- Experience in designing/developing database systems (query optimizers, query execution engine, storage engine, database indexing).
- Strong communication skills, with a bias towards collaboration, both within and across teams.
- Capability to thrive in small team environments, demonstrating self-motivation and independence in problem-solving.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Designing/developing distributed data pipeline processors/flows
- Database indexing and search techniques (inverted, ngram, full-text search, vector search)
- Compression algorithms and methods - (dictionary/FOR/delta encoding)
- Performance optimization techniques, and familiarity with SIMD instructions
- Familiarity with cloud storage solutions (Azure, GCP, AWS).
- Specific experience with modern OLAP databases like ClickHouse, DuckDB, etc
- Proficiency with modern build tools (such as cmake, ninja, clang-18,llvm-18)
- Experience with sanitizers and other static analysis tooling
- Experience in extending and enhancing codebases, including proficiency in forking and integrating changes.
Benefits and Perks
- Competitive compensation and equity.
- Fully paid health, dental and vision insurance for employees and their dependents.
- 401K with a 4% company match.
- 4 weeks paid vacation.
- Paid parental leave.
- Remote first culture with flexible working hours.
- One-time generous allowance for equipment and office setup.
Why Hydrolix?
At Hydrolix, our values guide us in every decision we make. We believe that great software is built by great teams who care for themselves and each other. We listen and act with intention. We recommit every day to earning our customers’ trust, starting with building trust and empathy as a team. We hold ourselves accountable for building a culture based on diversity and inclusion.
Hydrolix changes the economics of big data. Hydrolix’s elastic cloud data platform enables customers to ingest, store, and query petabyte scale data with blazing fast performance while saving millions of dollars annually. Having closed a $35M Series B Financing in May 2024, Hydrolix is well funded and backed by leading VCs including Nava Ventures, Wing VC, AV8, and S3 Ventures.
Hydrolix provides equal employment opportunities without regard to an applicant’s race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, religion, marital status or veteran status.
Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Hydrolix. Please inform us if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.
