Komodo Health
Staff Software Engineer, Query Engine [Rust]
$196K–$265K
United States +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Location
- United States
USA
About the job
Designs and leads the development of Burrow, Komodo Health’s Rust-based distributed query engine, serving large healthcare datasets and AI-driven products.
What you'll do
- Build and optimize query execution, indexing, storage layers, and APIs for Burrow and its consumers.
- Lead cross-team initiatives, including workload migrations, platform reliability improvements, and expanded query capabilities.
- Set technical direction, improve engineering practices, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Experience writing high-performance systems code in Rust, Erlang, or C++, including owning and operating production services.
- Deep knowledge of analytical query engine internals and experience building on or extending an engine such as Pinot, Druid, ClickHouse, DuckDB, DataFusion, or Trino.
- Demonstrated system architecture skills and staff-level technical leadership across teams.
- Experience building query or serving infrastructure for AI/ML systems, LLM-driven products, or high-volume real-time traffic; hands-on use of AI engineering tools.
Nice to have
- Healthcare data experience, including claims, clinical, provider, patient, or life sciences data.
- Experience migrating workloads from Redshift, Snowflake, or similar warehouses to purpose-built serving infrastructure.
Pay
$225,000 — $265,000 USD annual base pay; $196,000 — $230,000 USD annual base pay
Tools
Rust, SQL, Python, DuckDB, Spark, Parquet, Arrow, Vortex
AI focus
Build query APIs and serving infrastructure for AI agents and LLM-driven products; use AI tools in engineering workflows.
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