ABOUT CRATE.IO

We are about building a new kind of data store: a zero administration data store that is massively scalable and dead simple to use.

BE OPEN AND OPEN SOURCE

We have a strong open source background, mainly through Plone and Zope. We believe that open software is better software, and we have seen time and time again how openness enables organizations to achieve extraordinary outcomes with their data. Crate's ability to rapidly build and ship innovative software owes a great deal to the availability of high-quality open-source software that is freely available to integrate as components of larger works.

A few high profile modules power various pieces of our technology stack, namely Lucene, Netty, Elasticsearch and Facebook Presto. Crate.IO delivers its software as Open Source, accessible at public open source repository on GitHub. Going forward, we will continue to release open source components of our software and make them available to the public.

WHY WE BUILT CRATE  

Crate.IO was founded in 2013 by Jodok Batlogg, Christian Lutz and Bernd Dorn. Our prior experience was all about working with large data sets and setting up the elements to support them. Our experience taught us to pay attention to ease of use, from simple installation to painless operation of huge clusters. Data stores should be simple for developers to use. Big Data mountains grow everywhere. Yet it is still difficult to design, develop and operate back-end services that truly scale. Underlying traditional databases don’t scale well; solutions are expensive.

There is a human factor at play, too. Finding devops personnel with extended cluster management and big data experience is difficult and costly. We offer a cluster software stack for querying, storing and searching the world’s information. We support many kinds of data including structured, unstructured, relational, temporal and geospatial, and Crate Data REALLY scales well. Our product is built with a focus on scalability, ease of use, collaboration and integration.

Crate is already deployed in e-commerce, startup, mobile app, automotive and internet of things companies, and is spreading rapidly. We are deeply passionate about building great software and a successful company.

Crate’s software engineers develop this next-generation data store, a unique combination of a powerful distributed database that can be installed, operated and programmed very easily. Our ambitions reach out to allow any developer to run and maintain a highly available backend as simple as running an app server. As a software engineer, you work on a small team and directly impact the future of the product. We need our engineers to be versatile and always eager to tackle new problems as we continue to push technology forward.

As a key member of a our team, you design, test, deploy and maintain software solutions in a fast paced startup based in Berlin, Dornbirn (Austria) and San Francisco.

LOCATIONS:

Berlin, Germany or Dornbirn, Austria

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Write code for the core of our new generation of distributed database

• Implementation of high-performance “shared-nothing” Java components

• Planning and development in the Scrum team

MUST HAVE

• Extensive professional experience as developer

• Solid knowledge and practical experience with Java

• You have fun working on new and edgy stuff

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design

• Experience with test driven development, asynchronous programming, Netty, Elasticsearch, Lucene, Big Data and Map Reduce (Hadoop, Hive, Presto, Pig), databases (Postgres, MySql, Oracle, …), Scrum

• Open Source Contributions (if applicable, please send us your Github Account etc.)

OUR HIRING PROCESS

1. We screen your profile to see if it has what we’re looking for

2. If it does, we offer you a Skype interview (most likely with our Head of Development Bernd Dorn)

3. After that we might do another Skype call with one of our CEOs (Christian Lutz and Jodok Batlogg)

4. The third round consists of a face-to-face interview in one of our offices in Berlin, Dornbirn or San Francisco

5. If all goes well and we think you’re a good fit we will make you an offer

We try hard to make this process as quick and smooth as possible. After receiving an application we try to reply within 1 week. The entire process usually will not take longer than 1 month.