Lead Software Engineer

Dassault Systemes

Waltham, MA

Full Time

Senior

7 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Join NuoDB, a leading innovator of a high-performance, distributed, multi-cloud capable distributed SQL database. As part of Dassault Systèmes, our novel database powers the globally renowned 3DEXPERIENCE platform underpinning a suite of product design, process management, and collaborative tools running in the cloud. NuoDB's QA team is a distributed team whose mission is to ensure we deliver the best-in-class, high-performance, elastic, distributed, always-on database. The core engineering team builds and owns the storage, replication, indexing, and transaction management layers, key parts of the NuoDB "secret sauce". This position involves defining and solving challenging distributed systems problems, writing C++ code to add features and fix bugs in the database core, and improving performance at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Design and develop features and improvements to the NuoDB core to drive improvements in database performance and scalability
Implement correct, high-performance, and maintainable C++ code and work to reduce system complexity, ensuring the robustness and efficiency of the core system
Write tests to ensure system correctness and reliability
Collaborate as part of a highly distributed engineering organization and participate in collaborative design and code reviews

Requirements

A successful candidate will be an experienced C++ developer with large-scale software systems and legacy code
Strong foundation in systems software development with at least 10 years of professional experience
Design and develop improvements to NuoDB performance, scalability, and robustness
Experience with large, complex codebases and strong debugging skills
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or higher preferred
Knowledge of SQL database internals is a big plus