Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This graduate Software Engineer role sits close to the core of a SaaS database product, where real time performance and reliability are part of what customers pay for. SingleStore’s cloud native, distributed SQL focus places engineering work in the infrastructure layer that underpins many SaaS applications, making the problems more systems oriented than typical feature delivery. The mention of frequent release cycles signals an environment where production software is shipped regularly and measured in real customer impact.
From a SaaS career perspective, the role offers exposure to the full product lifecycle and to cross functional collaboration with product, marketing, and sales. That combination is valuable in SaaS because it builds an understanding of how technical decisions affect adoption, retention, and operational cost. Work on fault tolerance, query performance, and optimizer components develops transferable skills for high scale, multi tenant services and data intensive platforms.
The position is best suited to early career engineers who want depth in computer science fundamentals and are motivated by low level performance work in C or C++. It fits someone comfortable learning from experienced engineers while taking ownership of scoped projects end to end, and who prefers collaborative problem solving over isolated implementation work.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Software Engineer, University Graduate
at SingleStore
Lisbon, Portugal
Position Overview
SingleStore Software Engineers are at the forefront of real-time technology that’s revolutionizing how companies run their businesses every day. With release cycles throughout the year, our engineers are accustomed to moving quickly in a rapid production environment. To do this successfully, we work collaboratively and creatively across teams to maximize our opportunity for impact. We also believe it’s important to celebrate our wins together, whether it be at a local spot or getting out of the city for some exploring.
As a Software Engineer, you will be empowered to own your projects end-to-end and be an active contributor throughout the product life cycle. To expedite your growth path, you will partner with engineers who deeply care about your success and will lend their expertise to your professional development. Our engineers are not just technical partners, but are also business partners who are exposed to all areas of the business, working with teams such as product, marketing, and sales.
Role and Responsibilities
Our Software Engineers work on small, collaborative teams to help drive our company forward. Whether you’re building new features using cutting-edge technologies like WASM, improving the fault tolerance a SingleStore cluster, accelerating the performance of SQL queries with techniques like SIMD and LLVM codeGen, or writing search and costing modules for the query optimizer, our University Graduates are responsible for brand new and existing projects that are deployed into production with each release. Your work will include everything from writing to testing software, and you’ll gain a significant understanding of both the product and the business.
Required Skills and Experience
B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline. Deep understanding of C.S. fundamentals, in particular operating systems, concurrency, multithreading, and server architectures. Strong programming skills with C++ or C. Passionate about building highly reliable software. Firm grasp of algorithms and data structures
SingleStore delivers the cloud-native database with the speed and scale to power the world’s data-intensive applications. With a distributed SQL database that introduces simplicity to your data architecture by unifying transactions and analytics, SingleStore empowers digital leaders to deliver exceptional, real-time data experiences to their customers. SingleStore is venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Sunnyvale, Raleigh, Seattle, Boston, London, Lisbon, Bangalore, Dublin, and Kyiv.
Consistent with our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we value individuals with the ability to work on diverse teams and with a diverse range of people.
To all recruitment agencies: SingleStore does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to SingleStore employees. SingleStore is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.
