Engineer Nova’s real-time OLAP query engine, turning trillions of events into quick, trustworthy answers for product teams worldwide. Focus on query execution and storage.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will build and extend a system supporting analytics, experimentation, and AI-agent workloads. Your work covers query planning, columnar formats, encoding, compression, caching, resource management, and automated queries. You will influence architecture through multi-month projects, design documents, architecture discussions, and code reviews.
Key Responsibilities: Evolve query planning, execution, storage formats, and compression
Support sustained concurrent queries from automated AI agents
Extend Nova for additional warehouse-imported data types
Profile JVM performance, concurrency,



memory, and data layout
Mentor engineers in system design and production debugging
Requirements: Seven or more years of backend or infrastructure experience
Hands-on analytical, OLAP, query processor, or data processing development
Knowledge of partitioning, replication, consistency, failover, and concurrency
Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure costs at scale
Java, C++, or Python proficiency
Bring OLAP development experience and JVM, query, storage, and distributed systems expertise to Nova’s evolving engine.

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📌 Staff OLAP Query Engine Engineer (British Columbia)
🏢 Amplitude
📍 British Columbia