Engineering Manager, Database Systems

What you will do:

• Hire, manage, and mentor teams of software engineers.
• Execute against a comprehensive R&D strategy and company roadmap aligned with the company's goals and objectives.
• Develop distributed database systems using Zilliz’s innovative data science platforms.
• Create request plans, develop new systems, and perform prototype verification and testing.
• Design and write core architecture code and provide creative solutions to technical issues that arise during the product development process.
• Take ownership of product performance and stability.
• Research emerging technology to optimize the performance of underlying distributed platforms.
• Manage the Milvus open-source community and broaden Zilliz’s reach worldwide.

What we are looking for:

• 3+ years of experience of engineering leadership including; hiring, mentoring, delivering against priorities, and managing performance
• 5+ years of experience developing database or AI / ML systems
• In-depth knowledge of distributed systems, low-level optimizations, search algorithms or storage systems.
• Previous experience designing and developing large-scale cloud native systems.
• Active user or contributor to one or more infrastructure software such as Snowflake, CockroachDB, Oracle RDBMS, Google BigQuery, Spanner, Redshift, Aurora, Cosmos DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hudi, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Ray, Spark, Flink, Kafka, Redis, ElasticSearch, etc.
• Bachelor’s degree or above in computer science, software engineering, or other relevant disciplines.