Software Engineer II - Query Processing
Remote · USJob$145–165K/yrPosted 2 days agoStill listed 2 days ago
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The Query Processing team develops and improves systems for parsing, validating, optimizing, and executing SQL queries across distributed database infrastructure. The Software Engineer II collaborates on design, implementation, and performance analysis, and helps debug production and test issues. The role also involves code reviews, design discussions, process improvement, and knowledge sharing with fellow engineers.
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Job Title: Software Engineer II - Query Processing Location: 100% Remote (US Based Only)
- We cannot sponsor or transfer any visas, of any kind, at this time*
Hiring Manager: Senior Engineering Manager Estimated salary range: $145,000 to $165,000
- The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations
Job Description: The Query Processing team at Ocient handles the full landscape of parsing, validating, optimizing and executing SQL queries. The team ensures queries are correct and valid, the SQL is lowered into an optimal, executable representation, and the resulting plan is efficiently executed over petabytes of data across tens to hundreds of nodes. Query Processing works closely with our Test Infrastructure, Quality Assurance and Customer Operations teams to evaluate and improve performance on existing and new customer workloads, while also implementing new functionality to enable customer success. We are seeking a software engineer with strong interests in performance optimization and analysis - someone who enjoys analytical thinking and tackling abstract problems in the context of distributed database systems.
What You’ll Work On:
- Contribute to the ongoing improvement of query processing efficiency through collaboration on design, implementation, and performance analysis across the system
- Actively participate in code reviews and design discussions, offering constructive feedback and learning from peers
- Demonstrate curiosity and have a penchant for research and abstract thinking, bringing in novel ideas, tools, or techniques to improve system performance and reliability
- Help triage and debug issues found in both production and test environments, contributing to root cause analysis and resolution
- Engage in improving team processes and culture by sharing feedback and contributing to a positive, inclusive work environment
- Support the growth of fellow engineers through collaboration, pairing, and knowledge sharing
Ideal Qualifications:
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or related technical field
- 2+ years of industry experience writing code to solve complex problems using an object-oriented programming language (e.g. C++, Java, C#)
- 1+ years work experience as a Software Engineer working in Python or similar test infrastructure language, and experience measuring performance in compiled languages
- Strong understanding and application of data structures and algorithms.
- Direct experience with testing performance of data warehouses and data analytics engines preferred
- Experience developing on Linux and in large, version-controlled projects
- Ability to speak and write in English fluently
How this job compares
Set against the 41,339 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$145–165K/yr
- US median$135–217K/yr32,758 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $155K, is 11% below the US median midpoint ($175K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 41,339 open Software Engineer jobs across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 33,511 postings).
- Education
- 15,295 of the 41,339 open Software Engineer jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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