Zilliz
Senior Software Engineer, Database Systems
Redwood City
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- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Work mode
- Remote-friendly
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- 1 Sept 2026
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Zilliz is a fast-growing startup developing the industry’s leading vector database for enterprise-grade AI. Founded by the engineers behind Milvus, the world’s most popular open-source vector database , the company builds next-generation database technologies to help organizations quickly create AI applications. On a mission to democratize AI, Zilliz is committed to simplifying data management for AI applications and making vector databases accessible to every organization.
The Database Systems team builds the core engine behind Milvus and Zilliz Cloud Vector Lakebase; spanning storage, query execution, indexing, load balancing, resource management, and distributed system architecture. We build the next generation of vector databases around three Natives:
AI-Native: Born for AI and Agent workloads, with native support for vector data and semantic retrieval
Cloud-Native: Designed for elastic scaling and large-scale operation in the cloud
Lake-Native: Built on a data-lake architecture that works naturally with data at massive scale
For this team, scalability, performance, cost efficiency, and reliability are the core engineering goals.
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