# Staff Software Engineer - Query Planner & Reflections

Be Part of Building the Future Dremio is the unified lakehouse platform for self-service analytics and AI, serving hundreds of global enterprises, including Maersk, Amazon, Regeneron, NetApp, and S&P Global. Customers rely on Dremio for cloud, hybrid, and on-prem lakehouses to power their data mesh, data warehouse migration, data virtualization, and unified data access use cases. Based on open source technologies, including Apache Iceberg and Apache Arrow, Dremio provides an open lakehouse architecture enabling the fastest time to insight and platform flexibility at a fraction of the cost. Learn more at www.dremio.com. About the role Dremio's Query Planner & Reflections (QPR) team owns the SQL planner and optimizer - built on Apache Calcite - and the reflections substitution engine that transparently rewrites queries to hit pre-computed materializations instead of raw source data. As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll set technical direction for this system: driving ambiguous, cross-team initiatives, raising the bar through design and code review, and helping other engineers. What you'll be doing Set architecture and technical direction for the Query Planner and Reflections team spa

- **Id**: 4148032
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/dremio-staff-software-engineer-query-planner-reflections>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Portugal
- **Countries**: PT
- **Hiring countries**: PT
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T06:52:23Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T08:02:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5352
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Query Engines & Big Data Processing, Data Warehouses & Lakehouses

## Company

- **Id**: 58533
- **Name**: Dremio
- **Domain**: dremio.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/dremio>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Technologies

- **Apache Iceberg** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Portugal** — Iso: PT; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T08:02:41Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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