# Member of Technical Staff (Rust, Search & Database Engines) at Spice

- Company: Spice
- What the company does: Deploy analytics replicas alongside your operational databases to give apps and AI agents fast, sandboxed access to real-time data. Fully open source. Backed by Madrona.
- Company website: https://spice.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Bellevue, Washington
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-04-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/spiceai/15352239-504c-46de-9948-f27569afaf7c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/spice-member-of-technical-staff-rust-search-and-database-engines/

## About the role

At Spice AI, we hire for MEI: Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence . We're looking for exceptional, ambitious builders who are driven to solve hard problems and push the boundaries of what's possible for AI. We’re looking for a Rust Software Engineer to lead database development in Spice.ai OSS. In this role, you’ll design and build high-performance database engine features in Spice.ai, Apache DataFusion, Apache Ballista, Arrow, Iceberg, Vortex, and duckdb-rs.

## What they're looking for

- You are an exceptional engineer
- You are a problem solver. You start customer problems and figure out how to solve them with technology
- You think differently. You do not accept the status-quo. You challenge the current model of the world and take leaps of faith to build it better for everyone
- You are positive. Instead of focusing on limitations, you ask what’s possible
- You care about meaningful work. Your work is more than a job
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and unknowns, and in these situations, you lead by creating clarity

Tags: Spice.ai Open Source