# Senior Software Engineer at LanceDB

- Company: LanceDB
- What the company does: The multimodal lakehouse for AI, accelerating large-scale data curation and feature engineering so teams can build better models faster. Backed by Y Combinator and CRV.
- Company website: https://lancedb.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-10-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lancedb/9454302d-3d40-4ed4-832e-c1590ff497fc
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lancedb-senior-software-engineer/

## About the role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help expand the reach of Lance and LanceDB within the broader data infrastructure ecosystem. You'll work at the intersection of high-performance computing, big data, and open-source systems. You will contribute scale and performance improvements, integrations with the wider data and AI ecosystem, simplifying distributed operations, and usability and maintainability enhancements. Designing and maintaining efficient distributed Lance dataset operations

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of experience building high-performance databases, big data systems, or large-scale data services
- Deep understanding of internals of open-source Big Data or AI training systems (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Ray, Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, ClickHouse, Trino, Presto, PyTorch, or JAX)
- Strong experience with high-performance computing in C++, Java, and/or Scala
- Experience with Rust (or willingness to learn it)
- Proven ability to move fast, work independently, and collaborate with a high-caliber team

Tags: Engineering