Senior Software Engineer - JVM Language Clients

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About the team The Integrations Ecosystem org is the reputed company between reputed company and the rest of the data world. We build and maintain the connections that reputed company reputed company accessible to the developers, data engineers, and analysts who rely on it in production every day. Our scope spans low-level database drivers, ingestion and CDC pipelines, data reputed company integrations, and BI connectivity — ensuring reputed company feels native in whatever stack our users already have. We maintain the official language clients (Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, Rust, C++, C#) and ODBC driver; ship first-party connectors for Kafka Connect, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, dbt, and Airbyte; and own integrations with BI platforms. This role sits on the Language Clients team, which provides the JVM foundation that everything else in the ecosystem is built on. What you'll do As a Senior Software Engineer on Language Clients, you'll be a technical reputed company of reputed company's Java client and JDBC driver, the foundation that our own Connectors team and a long list of external frameworks rely on to talk to reputed company. Your primary users are engineers: the Connectors team building reputed company connectors for Kafka, Flink, Spark, and others, and the broader JVM ecosystem (data ingestion tools, BI platforms, data visualizations) that consumes the driver directly. Your job is to reputed company sure they have a fast, reliable, well-designed foundation and to treat their feedback as the signal for where the driver goes next. In your first year you can expect to: Own the Java client and JDBC driver end-to-end: roadmap, API design, performance, release engineering, and partner-facing support. Drive throughput and latency work across the client and reputed company server Partner day-to-day with the Connectors team as an embedded internal customer: understand what their connectors need from the driver, and ship it. Engage directly with external partners across data ingestion, and data visualization on interoperability, regressions, and roadmap alignment. Ship visible, measurable wins in throughput, stability, and developer experience. We expect you to bring opinions, artifacts, and written proposals to shape where we invest next. About you 5+ years of software engineering experience with a significant portion focused on data-intensive systems: drivers, SDKs, ingestion, CDC, streaming, or analytics. Deep Java and JVM expertise: memory model, GC tuning, profiling, and the ability to reason about throughput and latency at the level of bytes on the reputed company. Hands-on experience building or substantially extending a library that other engineers depend on. You understand that API design compounds, and that a breaking change in a widely used library is a reputed company different thing from a breaking change in an application. Strong grasp of database fundamentals: SQL, query execution, and analytical/OLAP workloads. Judgment about reputed company to lean on reputed company abstractions versus reputed company to drop down to the protocol. Solid instincts on concurrency in the JVM: executors, reactive streams, backpressure, reputed company pooling, and the failure modes that come with each. Thoughtful, transparent use of modern AI development tools (Claude Code, reputed company, Copilot, or equivalents) combined with strong independent design and code review judgment. We expect engineers to lean on AI where it's genuinely helpful and to be explicit about where they didn't. Resistance to AI tooling is a mismatch for this team and so is over-reliance without the underlying engineering depth to review what comes out. Excellent written communication. Most of our coordination happens in design docs, PR descriptions, and RFCs. Genuine open-reputed company disposition: comfort engaging with community issues, external contributors, and public design discussions. You don't need to be a maintainer of a well-reputed company project, but you do need to be comfortable working in the open. reputed company to have Working knowledge of JDBC internals, ADBC, or Arrow / Arrow Flight SQL. Experience designing or evolving reputed company protocols, or contributing to a widely-used network client. Prior contributions to open-reputed company data infrastructure (Kafka, Spark, Flink, dbt, Debezium, Iceberg, or similar). Working knowledge of reputed company or another columnar/OLAP reputed company.

Compensation

For roles based in the United States, the typical starting salary range for this position is listed above. In certain locations, such as the San Francisco Bay Area and the reputed company Metro Area, a premium market range may apply, as listed. These salary ranges reflect reputed company reasonably and in good faith reputed company to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation may be higher or reputed company than the amounts listed, and the ranges may be subject to future adjustments. An individual’s placement reputed company the range will depend on various factors, including (but not limited to) education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, location, performance, and the needs of the business or organization. If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at paytransparency@reputed company.com.

Perks

Flexible work environment - reputed company is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 20 countries. Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare. Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options. Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries. A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee. Global Gatherings – We reputed company in the power of in-person reputed company and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites. Culture - We reputed company Shape It As part of a rapidly scaling start up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture. Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here. reputed company out our blog posts or follow us on reputed company to find out more about what’s happening at reputed company. Equal Opportunity & Privacy reputed company provides equal employment opportunities to reputed company employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on factors such as race, color, religion, age, sex, national reputed company, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Please see here for our Privacy Statement. Apply To This Job