# Senior Software Engineer

About LanceDB AI advances at the speed of its research, and research moves at the speed of its data. LanceDB is the AI-native Multimodal Lakehouse: one system where a researcher curates petabytes of video, audio, and every signal derived from them with a few lines of Python, and the next training run starts as fast as the next idea. Customers like Runway, Midjourney, and Netflix build the future of AI on LanceDB, from frontier and world models to robots and autonomous vehicles. About the Role We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help expand the reach of Lance and LanceDB within the broader data infrastructure ecosystem. You'll work at the intersection of high-performance computing, big data, and open-source systems. You will contribute scale and performance improvements, integrations with the wider data and AI ecosystem, simplifying distributed operations, and usability and maintainability enhancements. What You'll Do Designing and maintaining efficient distributed Lance dataset operations Building efficient indices to enable predicate pushdown and accelerate queries in Spark, Ray, or Trino Working on table formats, data encodings, and various aspects of the Lance form

- **Id**: 3771486
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lancedb-senior-software-engineer-3>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T20:53:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T13:52:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2371
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Data Warehouses & Lakehouses, Databases & DBMS, Vector Search & RAG

## Company

- **Id**: 4364
- **Name**: Lancedb
- **Domain**: lancedb.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lancedb>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.286
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 73
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 180000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **Apache Hudi** — Optional: no
- **Apache Iceberg** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **ClickHouse** — Optional: no
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: no
- **Flink** — Optional: no
- **Hadoop** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **LanceDB** — Optional: no
- **Midjourney** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Presto** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Ray** — Optional: no
- **Runway** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **Trino** — Optional: no
- **World Models** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T21:43:22Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 73
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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