Senior Software Engineer, Database Systems

Zilliz|15 May 2025

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Listed location: Redwood City

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Job Description

The Database Systems team builds the core engine behind Milvus and Zilliz Cloud Vector Lakebase; spanning storage, query execution, indexing, load balancing, resource management, and distributed system architecture. We build the next generation of vector databases around three Natives:

AI-Native: Born for AI and Agent workloads, with native support for vector data and semantic retrieval
Cloud-Native: Designed for elastic scaling and large-scale operation in the cloud
Lake-Native: Built on a data-lake architecture that works naturally with data at massive scale

For this team, scalability, performance, cost efficiency, and reliability are the core engineering goals.

Zilliz is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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