Senior Software Engineer
Dual Bird
Software Engineering
Multiple locations
Posted on Jan 17, 2026
Role Overview
As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for developing software frameworks, drivers, and tools that accelerate open-source big data processing frameworks on custom hardware accelerators. Your work will focus on enabling and optimizing large-scale data processing workloads in tailor-made cloud environments, ensuring seamless integration with AWS-based data processing services. You will develop and optimize software stacks, implement benchmarking, debugging, and performance analysis tools, and evaluate acceleration gains to enhance efficiency and performance in cloud-based data platforms.
Qualifications & Skills
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field from a leading university.
- Strong programming proficiency in C++ under Linux.
- 5+ years of experience in software development, focusing on high-performance computing.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in runtime system development and low-level performance optimization.
- Strong background in debugging complex system environments.
- Experience implementing and optimizing multi-threaded algorithms.
- Solid understanding of columnar storage formats (e.g., Parquet) and their impact on query performance.
- Familiarity with AWS cloud services, including AWS EMR, S3, and EC2.
- Proficiency in Python or Scala for data processing and system development.
- Familiarity with hardware accelerators.