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# Software Engineer-Early Career at Yellowbrick Data

- **Company:** Yellowbrick Data
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-04-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://www.yellowbrick.com/careers/8509407002/?gh_jid=8509407002

## Job description

Software Engineer- Early Career

Yellowbrick Data is an enterprise data warehouse software company delivering high-performance analytics for modern organizations. Available on-premises or in the public cloud, Yellowbrick gives customers the flexibility to deploy where it makes the most sense while maintaining speed, security, and control. Leading insurers, credit card companies, telecommunications providers, healthcare organizations, and government agencies trust Yellowbrick to turn data into fast, actionable insights without compromising security.

Job Overview:

We’re a driven R&D team building the best database in the world for data warehousing: We innovate in all areas of the software stack, from operating systems through to user interface and everything in between. Our technology is elastic and horizontally scalable and supports business critical operations. It runs both on-premises and in the cloud.

We have an amazing opportunity for a recently graduated Software Developer to join our software development team, working in areas such as query execution, performance optimization, cluster management, security and debugging of issues encountered in the field. You'll have the opportunity to work in all areas of our software stack which includes almost every aspect of computer science - from hardware to operating systems and user interfaces and everything in between.

If this job is for you, you love computer architecture, data structures, massively parallel algorithms, multicore programming, and performance analysis and optimization. You have a flair for debugging the hardest issues around concurrency, and relish using AI to explore and master a large complex code base. Starting your career, you’re keen to be surrounded by distinguished experts in the field of database development to learn from, yet keen to bring new perspectives and introduce new technology that can make a difference. You’re used to co-working with AI assistants for development and debugging, yet curious enough to question and learn from what they do. Perhaps most importantly, you love to get things done, ship product, help customers, and see it solving business problems that benefit thousands of users around the world.

We’re based on Trafalgar Square in the heart of London, and you’ll be expected to work from the office four days a week. We have great benefits, flexible vacations and a fun and inclusive office culture.

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, test data warehouse microservices
- Help troubleshoot and fix issues encountered in the field
- Work closely with other teams such as Product and Technical Support to prioritise, guide and help customers

Qualifications:

- 1-3 years of relevant work experience
- Strong knowledge of C and C++ and working knowledge of Java
- A working knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker and Helm
- Strong debugging skills with LLDB or GDB
- Mastery of AI assistants such as Codex and Claude
- Experience developing software for Linux
- Basic understanding of networking and storage device behaviours
- Fundamental computer science – as many of these as possible:
- Hashing, sorting, searching, aggregation
- Indexing
- Distributed algorithms
- File systems and storage APIs
- Operating systems – kernels, threading, scheduling, memory management
- TCP and RDMA networking
- Multi-core programming and memory models
- Compilers – front end, internals or back-ends
- SQL and relational databases
- Machine Learning systems/platforms
- Internals of open source or commercial database

We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. Come advance with us! In keeping with our values, no employee or applicant will face discrimination/harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. Yellowbrick Data also strives to prevent other, subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (e.g., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our organization. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Yellowbrick Data.

Yellowbrick may keep any job application for a period of three years to allow Yellowbrick to consider you for other suitable openings within the Company in the future. If you would like to opt out from the Company’s policy of retaining your information for the purposes of considering you for other suitable openings, please email gail.boddy@yellowbrick.com. The full text of Yellowbrick's California, the European Economic Area and United Kingdom Job Applicant Privacy Notice can be found [here](https://yellowbrick.com/yellowbrick-gdpr-and-ccpa-job-applicant-privacy-notice/).

To all recruitment agencies: Yellowbrick Data does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to Yellowbrick Data employees or any other organization location. Yellowbrick Data is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

## About Yellowbrick Data

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Yellowbrick Data provides a cloud-native SQL data platform built on Kubernetes for high-performance enterprise data warehousing, ad-hoc and streaming analytics, and AI/BI workloads.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Neil Carson, Jim Dawson, Mark Brinicombe

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Enterprise Data Warehousing & Analytics
- **Target Customers**: Large enterprises in regulated industries, including insurers, credit card companies, telecommunications providers, healthcare organizations, and government agencies (B2B, Enterprise).
- **Mission/Purpose**: To secure data as a critical asset, making it available to the right people at the right time while ensuring it stays under the customer's control.

## Products & Services
- **Yellowbrick SQL Data Platform**: A cloud-native, Kubernetes-based data warehouse that can be deployed on any public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), private cloud, data center, laptop, or at the edge. It offers a "Private Data Cloud" architecture where the entire service runs inside the customer's own cloud account, ensuring data never leaves their control for security, residency, and sovereignty compliance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric - Annual Revenue**: $23.5 Million.
- **Key Metric - Total Funding**: $248 Million (across 4 rounds).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: DFJ Growth, BMW i Ventures, Menlo Ventures, N47.
- **Growth Signals**: While total headcount has decreased by 27.5% YoY (now at 67), the company maintains a significant operational footprint across 8 countries (including the US, UK, France, Mexico, Canada, and Denmark). They have been acquired by (or acquired) entities like Yellowbrick Data GmbH, indicating strategic restructuring. Their core differentiator in secure, sovereign data deployment is a key driver in regulated verticals.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Private Data Cloud Architecture**: The platform is deployed entirely within the customer’s cloud account or data center, eliminating data exposure to the vendor. This is a major moat for enterprises with strict security, residency, and sovereignty requirements.
- **True Anywhere Deployment**: A single platform runs on-premises, any public cloud, the edge, or a laptop, offering unparalleled flexibility without sacrificing performance.
- **Performance & Efficiency**: Leverages NVMe flash storage, massively parallel processing (MPP), and a purpose-built execution engine for speed and predictable performance.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepening the Cloud-Native Platform**: Focusing on making the Kubernetes-based platform elastic and horizontally scalable for business-critical operations.
- **Targeting Regulated Industries**: Continuing to serve healthcare, government, financial services, and telecom sectors where data control is non-negotiable.
- **R&D Innovation**: A heavy focus on the entire software stack—from OS to UI—with an emphasis on performance optimization, concurrency, and distributed algorithms, as evidenced by their early-career R&D roles in London.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact Engineering**: The company is described as a "driven R&D team building the best database in the world," offering engineers the chance to work on every layer of the software stack, from operating systems to user interfaces, using massively parallel algorithms and multicore programming.
- **Learning & Mentorship**: Early-career engineers get to work alongside "distinguished experts in the field of database development" while being encouraged to bring new perspectives and use AI for development.
- **Culture & Perks**: The London office is based on Trafalgar Square with a hybrid policy requiring four days a week in the office. Perks include unlimited paid time off (unlimited vacation), competitive pay, growth opportunities, and catered meals twice a week.
- **Inclusive Environment**: The company states a commitment to diversity and encourages people from underrepresented groups to apply, with a clear anti-discrimination policy.

## Sources
1. [Company Website](https://yellowbrick.com/)
2. [About Page](https://yellowbrick.com/about-yellowbrick/)
3. [Careers Page](https://yellowbrick.com/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/yellowbrickdata)
5. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowbrick_Data)

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- [Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-yellowbrick-data-london-ek55th1d783k) — London, United Kingdom