Member of Technical Staff (Rust, Search & Database Engines)
spiceai· Spice.ai Open Source
About this role
Building data-driven AI applications and agents is too complex, even for advanced developers.
This new generation of applications need fast, secure access to data across disparate systems, the ability to search and reason over that data, and infrastructure that’s reliable enough to run in production. Today, teams often need to piece together query engines, search systems, caches, and AI tooling, adding significant complexity along the way.
At Spice AI, we simplify this by unifying query federation, search, and AI into a single runtime for building intelligent applications. Our mission is to make building AI-powered software as easy building a modern web application and help developers build the next generation of applications. We offer both open source and fully managed cloud deployments.
For a deeper dive into the vision, watch Founder and CEO Luke Kim's CMU Databases talk on Spice.ai OSS at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyM-ec1lKfU and read his Materialized View interview at https://materializedview.io/p/building-a-cdn-for-databases-spice-ai.
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 Principal 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, Arrow, Iceberg, and duckdb-rs.
If you’re passionate about open source, distributed systems, and database internals, we want to hear from you.
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This Member of Technical Staff (Rust, Search & Database Engines) position at spiceai was posted on Apr 20, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
Member of Technical Staff (Rust, Search & Database Engines)
spiceai
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