The product: A sophisticated query engine

We are building a sophisticated OLAP/SQL query engine for advanced analytics, accessing data from many different data sources (RDBMS’s, Hive, Impala, Druid, Elasticsearch and others). The query engine is written in Scala and builds on Apache Calcite. We are planning to open-source it during the course of this year with the goal of making it an Apache project eventually.

The stack

Scala, Java, Apache Calcite, Spark

The challenge

The project involves working with many interesting concepts related to data processing and querying such as query parsing and validation, relational algebra, creation of logical and physical plans and adapters to different database and execution engines. Your work will also involve participation in the communities of and development of contributions to Calcite and other open-source libraries we use.

Your profile

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How we work

About the interview process

How we get to know each other

  1. We like to start out with a brief 20-30min session for a mutual introduction. We tell you about our company, product and culture and are happy to answer any questions you might have. From your side, we’re mostly interested in understanding what kind of challenges you’re looking for, what technologies you’d like to work with and what role you’d like to be in.
  2. If both sides agree that this could be a good fit, we move on to a more technical session. We ask you to walk us through one of your past projects as if we were new colleagues joining you on the job. The ability to communicate effectively and concisely about complex systems and trade-offs between different approaches is key.
  3. In a second technical session, we discuss some of the technologies and concepts you have used. We also give you a walk-through of our product and solutions, discuss our architecture and components. Finally we try to scope your initial role and focus — should you be joining us.
  4. In the last session, we discuss the remaining details, logistics and plan your relocation.

We see the interview process as a mutual opportunity to get to know each other — at eye level. That’s why we always strive for responding within hours, not weeks.

Link: https://www.contiamo.com/careers/