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We are building an innovative data processing engine that is transforming how Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Ray and others operate on diverse, large-scale data. Our team of engineers drive and adopt advances in hardware-accelerated computing, parallel processing of large-scale data, query optimization, distributed systems, compilers, machine learning, and cloud-native computing. We are looking for specialists to join our engineering team and shape the future of accelerated data processing.\nDataPelago Nucleus is a universal data processing engine that is designed to accelerate the processing of diverse data - structured through unstructured - with any parallel processing framework - e.g., Apache Spark - on any infrastructure - including vectorized CPU and GPU. DataPelago Accelerator for Spark (DPA-S), our product based on DataPelago Nucleus, is running large-scale production applications of many globally renowned customers.\nThe Opportunity:\nAs senior development leader of DataPelago data processing engine orchestration, you will spearhead the development and delivery of innovative capabilities in the planning, optimization, and coordination of complex workloads on large-scale distributed systems. The orchestration layer drives distributed execution plans adapted to the capabilities of the processing elements in the infrastructure, towards minimizing execution duration and cost. You will be responsible for growing and advancing the development team, development methodologies, and product capabilities.\na key individual contributor in adopting and advancing capabilities of open-source software (OSS) platforms such as Apache Gluten, Velox, Apache Spark, and Apache Flink in the context of DataPelago’s data processing engine. You will enhance functional breadth, performance, scale, and reliability of the DataPelago engine through downstream and upstream contributions. You will have the opportunity to engage with community working on these platforms. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on a category-defining product and work with a talented team of engineers.\nWhat You'll Do:\nLead and grow a talented team of engineers with expertise in query planning, query optimization, plan execution orchestration for massively parallel data processing engines.\nDrive development with technical leads to implement and deliver industry-leading capabilities in data processing engine orchestration.\nEstablish metrics including for product quality, performance, scale, and reliability and lead the team in ensuring these metrics are continuously improved and achieved in customer deployments.\nContinuously improve software development lifecycle practices leveraging the latest AI advances for higher code quality, release velocity, and productivity.\nExecute efficiently to fulfill product roadmap aligned with organization goals and priorities.\nLead by example and foster a high-performance, high-integrity, collaborative work culture.\nWhat You'll Bring:\nBachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field. Master’s or PhD preferred.\n12+ years of production software development experience with 7+ years of experience managing software development teams.\n10+ years of experience in planning, developing, launching, and supporting core components of massively parallel data processing platforms (e.g., query engines, cloud data warehouses, lakehouse engines) for production deployment.\nTechnical and process rigor in meeting and exceeding data accuracy, high performance, reliability, and security requirements of enterprise data processing products.\nAbility to attract, retain, and grow exceptional talent in data processing engine orchestration.\nDeep technical experience in one or more of database systems, data warehouses, query optimization, query engines. 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