C++ Developer (f/m/d) for HANA Execution Engine

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What you’ll do

We are looking for a passionate C++ Developer (f/m/d) to join our HANA Execution Engine team. As part of our agile team, you will design and implement new features for the engine framework, new operators and/or improve existing ones, while constantly keeping the right balance between memory consumption, runtime and throughput. You will write regression and unit tests for your own code using different programming languages (e.g., C++, Python, SQL) and testing frameworks (e.g., Google C++ Testing Framework), conduct code reviews and code audits to spot opportunities for improvements with respect to usability, testability, supportability or potential performance penalties.

What you bring

Required skills:

• Master’s or PhD degree in computer science / related technical discipline
• 2+ years of related professional experience
• Fluency in modern C++
• Experience in data structures, parallel and high‑performance algorithms
• Knowledge of database internals, query processing and optimization
• Ability to analyze and debug complex problems
• Result driven with focus on delivering a high‑quality code

Nice to have:

• Experience with Python
• Experience with JIT code generation
• Experience in administration, programming or profiling on LINUX
• Familiar with code‑analysis tool

Meet your team

We are working on the next generation, industry‑leading cloud database. The team is responsible for providing a modern state‑of‑the‑art relational execution engine which fulfills the most challenging requirements of our internal and external customers for both OLTP and OLAP workloads. In our execution engine, performance and quality go hand in hand: we are committed to delivering robust, efficient, and highly reliable execution at scale.

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