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Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Databases (VitessMySQLMyRocks)
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22 August 2026 (18 hours ago)
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19 November 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Senior Software Engineer Distributed Databases (Vitess/MySQL/MyRocks)
Location
London
Business Area
Engineering and CTO
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Description & Requirements
Description & Requirements
Bloomberg runs on financial data. Across datasets spanning every asset classfrom alternatives and reference data to corporate actions filings benchmarks point-in-time histories and derived analyticsevery record must be correct durable globally available and served with low latency.
Our team builds Bloombergs distributed OLTP storage platform. We operate petabytes of critical financial data across more than 10000 MySQL shards using InnoDB and MyRocks as storage engines and Vitess for sharding and cluster management.
We build custom read and write APIs that give Bloomberg engineers safe predictable access to financial data without exposing the complexityor operational riskof sharding replication compaction failover and fleet management.
This is a hands-on software engineering role at the boundary between distributed systems and database internals. You will build the software that operates and evolves this fleet diagnose difficult production behavior at source-code depth and contribute fixes and features upstream to Vitess and the MySQL/MyRocks/RocksDB ecosystem.
We solve recurring operational problems in software. Where practical we contribute generally useful changes upstream rather than carrying private patches indefinitely.
Well trust you to:
- Design and implement capabilities that safely operate and evolve a 10000 shard Vitess/MySQL/MyRocks fleet across regions.
- Work in Go and C across Vitess MySQL MyRocks and RocksDB using Python where it is the right tool for automation testing and analysis.
- Improve query serving replication automated failover online schema changes VReplication and resharding backup and restore major-version upgrades compaction capacity management and workload isolation.
- Diagnose production issues across query execution transactions locking replication storage engines filesystems operating systems runtimes and hardware.
- Build operational intelligenceincluding carefully tested AI-assisted toolingthat correlates metrics logs traces topology code paths and recent changes to accelerate diagnosis and support safe auditable remediation.
- Participate in a sustainable on-call rotation and turn recurring incidents and operational work into durable platform improvements.
- Lead technical designs and incident investigations mentor engineers and contribute to the open-source projects on which the platform depends.
Youll need to have:
- Significant experience designing building or operating distributed databases or production infrastructure at scale.
- Deep expertise in at least one of the following areas with an interest in working across the broader stack:
Vitess or a comparable sharded SQL system including query routing topology VReplication resharding or cluster management;
Vitess or a comparable sharded SQL system including query routing topology VReplication resharding or cluster management;
MySQL server internals replication high availability query execution InnoDB backup and recovery;
MyRocks RocksDB or another LSM-based storage engine including compaction write amplification caching concurrency and performance analysis.
- Strong production software engineering skills in Go and/or C including the ability to understand and modify large mature systems codebases.
- Experience debugging complex behavior through profiling tracing thread and process analysis source-code inspection operating-system telemetry and controlled reproduction.
- Experience making high-risk infrastructure changes safely through testing staged rollout observability fault containment and rollback.
- Clear technical judgment and the ability to communicate designs trade-offs incidents and operational risks.
- A degree in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related discipline or equivalent practical experience.
Wed love to see:
- Accepted upstream contributions to Vitess MySQL MyRocks RocksDB or another database or storage project.
- Experience operating database fleets at thousands-of-shards scale.
This role combines database internals fleet-scale distributed systems production ownership and meaningful open-source impact. Join us in London to shape the storage platform behind some of Bloombergs most important financial data systems.
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Required Experience:
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About Company
Bloomberg is the world's primary distributor of financial data and a top news provider of the 21st century. A global information and technology company, we use our dynamic network of data, ideas and analysis to solve difficult problems every day. Our customers around the world rely on ... View more
