Job Description
Senior Database Engineer
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Hybrid/Remote
Description
SurrealDB is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our core database team. Based in London or US East Coast , you'll work on the hardest problems in database design - query optimization, storage engines, and execution performance - shipping improvements that directly impact production workloads. You'll be essential to making SurrealDB faster, smarter, and more capable.
We’re specifically hiring for core database engineering . This role is for engineers who have built or modified database internals (e.g. storage engine, query execution, indexing, replication/consensus, transactions). If your experience is primarily operating databases (running, tuning, administering, or building applications on top of them), you may be a better fit for our Platform Engineering role....