.We are a young, fast-growing startup building cutting-edge technology to revolutionize cloud development processes and support highly efficient dev & test feedback loops. At its core, LocalStack provides a high-fidelity emulator and local cloud development platform - imagine developing cloud applications and data pipelines entirely on your local machine within a lightweight cloud sandbox, running in Docker. Our mission is to empower developers to rapidly build and test their cloud applications, allowing for a more enjoyable dev experience, and saving valuable time and resources.LocalStack has a large and active open source community (51k+ stars on GitHub) with several 100k active users worldwide and 250M+ downloads to date.With a growing international customer base across Fortune Global 500 companies for our advanced enterprise offerings, as well as a growing, globally distributed team of top-notch engineers and GTM experts, we are on an exciting growth journey to become the world's leading platform for local cloud software development. LocalStack is headquartered in Zurich/Switzerland, with a development office in Vienna/Austria and remote team members from around the world (incl. US, FR, UK, IN, IT, MX, IE).We are looking for a lead software engineer who can spearhead the development of our data platform emulators. LocalStack provides several localized versions of cloud-based data platforms, allowing our users to run their data pipelines directly on the local machine (or in CI pipelines), without requiring any connectivity to the real cloud. Among others, we provide support for AWS Athena, AWS RDS/Redshift, and AWS Glue, and more recently a first version of a Snowflake emulator running entirely locally, in Docker.With our work at LocalStack we're filling an important gap in the industry - most vendors at this point do not bother providing a fully local dev experience, however there is huge demand from the developer community to work with local tooling, take the data infrastructure with them on their laptop, and even work offline. The Snowflake emulator is currently in private beta, and so far there's been great excitement among the beta customers who are evaluating this early version which we're now further building out.The ground-breaking solutions we're implementing involve several exciting challenges - making the functionality of powerful data platforms available on the local machine in a lightweight and performance-optimized manner. Oftentimes this includes configuring and running database products like PrestoDB/TrinoDB, Apache Spark, or a PostgreSQL server on the local machine or in Docker, and then adding the required configuration, glue code and integrations to provide an API that closely resembles the behaviour of the real cloud system