Senior Staff Engineer

InfluxData

. Serve as a company-level technical leader for InfluxDB 3.0, reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer .

Posted 11/6/2026full-timeRemote • United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, United KingdomSenior💰 $240,000 - $290,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Rust programming and distributed systems, with a strong focus on building scalable cloud solutions across AWS and Azure. Proven leadership in setting technical direction and mentoring engineering teams while ensuring operational excellence.

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Rust ProgrammingDistributed Systems EngineeringCloud Deployment (AWS, Azure)Technical LeadershipPerformance Engineering

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Hard Skills

RustDistributed CachingPerformance EngineeringCloud ComputingDatabase ManagementDataFusionObject StorageIngestion TechniquesColumnar StorageBenchmarking

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationMentoringInfluencing DecisionsCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

AWSAzureGCPDataFusion

Industry Keywords

Technical LeadershipOperational ExcellenceTime Series WorkloadsObservability WorkloadsManaged Cloud Services

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a company-level technical leader for InfluxDB 3.0, reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer
Shape the long-term technical vision for the InfluxDB 3.0 product line and its place in the wider product portfolio
Partner with engineering leaders on product strategy, roadmap bets and build-vs-buy decisions
Identify important technical problems and determine which ones not to solve
Design and write production Rust for the storage engine, including ingestion, compaction, columnar storage on object stores, caching and query execution with DataFusion
Drive distributed caching, reliability and performance work from benchmarks through production
Contribute to cloud deployment discussions across AWS and Azure
Set engineering standards and best practices adopted across multiple teams and divisions
Participate in the on-call rotation and improve operational excellence
Mentor staff and senior engineers and develop future technical leaders
Represent InfluxData's engineering perspective to executives and customers

Requirements

What you’ll need

15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including several years at senior staff level or above
An advanced degree in computer science or a related field is a plus; equivalent experience counts
Track record of building and operating distributed systems at large scale
Hands-on experience building on multiple cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, Azure) and object storage
Deep hands-on Rust experience, or strong systems experience and a desire to master Rust
Expertise in distributed caching, reliability and performance engineering
Proven ability to set technical direction across multiple teams or divisions and influence executive decisions
Clear written and verbal communication with engineers, executives and customers
Experience with time series or observability workloads at high ingest rates is a plus
Experience running a database as a managed cloud service is a plus
Published talks, papers or writing on databases or distributed systems is a plus
Ability to work in the US / authorization to work in the country where currently located
Interviews are conducted via Zoom; candidates unable to access Zoom should notify the company

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical/dental/vision insurance with 100% coverage for employees
Company contribution to your FSA
Flexible Time Off - take the time you need
Life Insurance, short and long term disability insurance
401(k)
Wellness programs
Annual professional development budget
Financial planning and legal advice
Equity
Remote work arrangement