Join a tiny, elite team building something that has never existed before — a single binary that replaces eight separate databases, scales from 64 KB microcontrollers to planetary-scale clusters, and never phones home.
Most companies hire engineers to maintain existing systems. We're building something genuinely new — a database that does what no other database does, shipped as a single sovereign binary.
You won't maintain a legacy codebase. You'll write code that runs on microcontrollers and on stock exchange infrastructure using the same binary. You'll see your work in production systems that cannot tolerate errors.
Replacing 8 separate databases with one binary — SQL, vector, graph, time-series, KV, document, columnar, spatial, all in one Rust codebase.
Stock exchange performance, military-grade security — sub-millisecond queries, cryptographic integrity on every write, autonomous ransomware detection.
IoT to planetary scale from one codebase — the same engine compiles to 64 KB for ARM Cortex-M and serves millions of connections in a distributed cluster.
Sovereign — zero telemetry, zero dependencies, air-gap deployable — no cloud provider, no external services, no phone-home. Your users own their data completely.
5,574+ tests, 34 patents pending, built in Launceston, Tasmania — an Australian product proving that world-class infrastructure software can come from anywhere.
These aren't aspirational statements on a wall. They're how we make daily decisions.
We ship when it's right, not when the deadline says so. A bug in a database is not recoverable with a hotfix. We verify everything — 5,574+ tests say so.
The best code is the code that doesn't exist. We don't add abstraction layers for their own sake. Every line of code is a liability; we earn every line we keep.
You own systems, not tickets. When something is wrong in your domain, you fix it — you don't wait for a sprint ceremony to authorise the work.
We build things that last. Code that looks right but works by accident is a time bomb. We care about the internals even when no user will ever see them.
We ship a self-verification tool so users can independently confirm every performance claim. We don't hide behind benchmarks we control. We welcome scrutiny.
All roles are fully remote. We hire for excellence, not geography.
Work on the core database engine in Rust. Own entire subsystems — storage engines, wire protocol implementations, query execution, distributed consensus, or cryptographic security. Every line you write runs in production environments where correctness is non-negotiable.
What you'll own:
Requirements:
A founding-team role. You will shape the engineering culture, drive architecture decisions, build the team, and be a technical peer — not just a process manager. You'll report directly to the founder and have genuine authority over how we build.
What you'll own:
Requirements:
Be the bridge between the product and the developer community. Build tutorials, write documentation that doesn't read like documentation, speak at conferences, and create the technical content that makes developers trust Maree-DB before they try it.
What you'll own:
Requirements:
Own how Maree-DB is positioned in a crowded market. Drive go-to-market strategy, create compelling competitive positioning against Oracle and AWS, and help enterprise buyers understand why Maree-DB is not just cheaper — it's technically superior.
What you'll own:
Requirements:
Five steps. No trick questions. No unpaid multi-week projects. We respect your time.
30–60 minutes. Values alignment, technical thinking, and working style. No gotcha questions.
30 minutes. A two-way conversation — we want to understand how you think, and you get to interrogate us.
If it requires more than 2 hours, we pay for your time. No spec work for free.
Informal. Meet the people you'd work with. Mutual fit assessment — we want you asking hard questions too.
Straightforward. Good faith. We explain every number. No exploding offers or artificial urgency.
Remote-first, async-first, high-trust, high-standards. No theatre.
Work from wherever you do your best work. All communication is async-first — your location doesn't disadvantage you.
You own the systems you build. Not tickets assigned to you — systems. You make architectural decisions, you monitor them, you improve them.
No mandatory standups. No Jira velocity tracking. No OKR theatre. You know what good work looks like — go do it.
We hold ourselves to standards that most companies would consider excessive. Zero warnings. 100% tests. Every algorithm cited. That's non-negotiable.
You'll implement algorithms from academic papers, not third-party libraries. You'll understand why every piece works, not just that it works.
Early-stage equity in a product with genuine IP, 34 patents pending, and no external investors. Your upside is real.
Start with the assessment. It takes 30–60 minutes and helps us understand whether we're a mutual fit — without either party wasting time in a long interview loop.