Systems Architecture at InfluxData
InfluxDB 3.0 is built on the Rust FDAP stack (Flight, DataFusion, Arrow, Parquet), ingesting millions of metrics per second into object-store Parquet files with zero-copy Arrow Flight queries.
Core committer role on InfluxDB 3.0 (IOx) and Apache Arrow DataFusion in Rust: optimize high-cardinality time-series ingestion and Parquet compaction. Base pay for this remote role sits at $185,000 to $245,000 USD plus equity.
What You Will Own in Production
- Contribute upstream to Apache DataFusion, reduce memory pressure during wide time-series compactions, and optimize Arrow Flight SQL throughput.
- Profile CPU cache misses, syscall bottlenecks, and tail latency spikes across DataFusion, Apache Arrow, Parquet services using hardware perf counters and flamegraphs.
- Review architectural RFCs and maintain strict memory-safety invariants in async and unsafe Rust blocks.
Background We Look For
- Production track record shipping low-level systems in Rust, C, or C++ with deep fluency in DataFusion, Apache Arrow, Parquet, Tonic, Tokio.
- Hands-on experience debugging Linux kernel networking, NVMe storage, or GPU compute pipelines under heavy load.
- Compensation: $185,000 to $245,000 USD per year, equity grant, and full remote workstation budget (US / Europe Remote).
