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firebolt
A Software Engineer at Firebolt works on the distributed query processing engine and storage layer, focusing on improving performance and extending the vectorized query engine. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining cutting-edge query processing and optimization features.
Headquarters
La Honda, California, United States
Company Size
51-200 employees
Founded
2019
Firebolt is an open-source analytical database built for engineers, designed for AI agents, real-time analytics, and efficient ELT with the best price-performance in the market. It runs as a single binary on a laptop and scales to hundreds of nodes and petabytes of data in the cloud, supporting PostgreSQL SQL dialect, Apache Iceberg, and ACID transactions. Firebolt can be deployed anywhere — bare metal, VMs, Kubernetes, or any cloud — and is also available as a fully managed service on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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