Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Databases (Vitess/MySQL/MyRocks) at Bloomberg

Location: London, England
Level: not_specified
Added to Metaintro: Aug 18, 2026

Description

This is a hands-on software engineering role focused on building and evolving Bloomberg's distributed OLTP storage platform. The role involves designing and implementing capabilities for managing a large Vitess/MySQL/MyRocks fleet, improving various aspects like query serving and replication, diagnosing production issues, and contributing to open-source projects such as Vitess and MySQL/MyRocks/RocksDB.

Required Skills

Go
C++
Python
Vitess
MySQL
MyRocks
RocksDB

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 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:
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.
Preferred Qualifications: Accepted upstream contributions to Vitess, MySQL, MyRocks, RocksDB, or another database or storage project.
Experience operating database fleets at thousands-of-shards scale.
Translation Company Name: Bloomberg