Senior Software Engineer – Database

Weaviate

full-time

Posted on: 9/22/2025

Origin: • 🌎 Anywhere in the World

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Senior

CloudDistributed SystemsGoKubernetes

About the role

Design, develop, and own a greenfield vector storage engine from the ground up in Go.
Tackle challenging problems in distributed systems and latency-sensitive retrieval, optimizing for high throughput and low latency.
Work with complex data structures, indexing systems, and database internals, driving low-level optimizations.
Collaborate closely with Research, Product, Cloud Service, Platform, and SRE teams to deliver impactful solutions.
Contribute to production operations, including observability (metrics, logging, alerting) and design features with enterprise-scale operability in mind.
Leverage Golang, Kubernetes, LLMs, and coding assistants in daily development.
Build and extend integrations with embedding providers, ensuring seamless interoperability across the AI ecosystem.
Take end-to-end ownership of projects, from design through delivery and long-term maintenance.
Operate in a team culture that values autonomy, pragmatism, and effective processes.

Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer (or equivalent), ideally with deep expertise in databases, distributed systems, or high-performance infrastructure.
Strong proficiency in Go, with ability to write clean, maintainable, performant code.
Solid experience designing and building production-grade distributed systems (consensus, replication, partitioning, fault tolerance).
Experience with complex data structures, indexing, and performance optimizations for throughput and latency.
Familiarity with Kubernetes and operating cloud-native systems at scale.
Bonus: experience with LLMs, vector search, or AI/ML infrastructure.
Strong written and verbal communication skills and commitment to clear documentation for remote collaboration.
Positive, motivated team player with demonstrated ownership and initiative.
Comfortable collaborating across Research, Product, Cloud Service, Platform, and SRE teams and translating needs into technical solutions.
Thrives in a remote-first, async environment where autonomy and accountability go hand-in-hand.
Located in a timezone between Pacific Time (PT) and Brasília Time (BRT).