Staff Software Engineer

Tech Stack

Responsibilities

• Work across Nova's query execution engine and distributed compute layer, designing and implementing new capabilities for warehouse-imported data types.
• Design for high-throughput automated query workloads to support sustained, concurrent, and programmatic query patterns from AI agents.
• Own and execute projects that materially reduce infrastructure cost while maintaining or improving latency and throughput, including profiling and optimizing JVM performance.
• Strengthen Nova’s reliability posture by identifying systemic failure modes, driving durable fixes, participating in on-call rotation, and contributing to operational tooling.
• Lead the design and execution of multi-month projects, contributing to technical direction through design docs, architecture discussions, code reviews, and mentoring senior engineers.

Soft Skills

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible PTO
• Learning Budget
• Home Office Budget
• Parental Leave
• Mental Health
• Employee Stock Purchase
• 401k

Culture

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