Staff Engineer

The role

You will design, build and scale the core storage, replication and transaction parts of YugabyteDB, a distributed PostgreSQL database. You will lead C/C++ development and mentor other engineers in distributed systems.

What you will do

• Lead design, development, testing and delivery of core storage and replication features in YugabyteDB.
• Write high-quality C/C++ code with comprehensive automated tests; take part in design discussions and code reviews.
• Troubleshoot and resolve correctness, stability and performance issues in distributed storage and transaction subsystems.
• Improve database scalability and throughput as cluster sizes, data volumes and transaction rates grow.
• Build and streamline operations: horizontal cluster scale-out, incremental and point-in-time backups, online schema and index operations, rolling upgrades and blue-green deployments.
• Identify and implement performance improvements across the storage engine, transaction processing and replication layers.
• Contribute to the open-source YugabyteDB project.
• Mentor and technically influence other engineers in distributed systems design, performance engineering and systems-level debugging.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong foundation in systems programming using C/C++.
• Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: replication and consensus, transactions and consistency models, fault tolerance and recovery.
• Experience working on storage engines, databases or other infrastructure-level systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative, distributed team.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with distributed storage systems, transactional engines or consensus protocols.
• Familiarity with LSM-tree based storage engines, WALs, snapshots or compaction strategies.
• Experience with PostgreSQL internals or other relational database engines.
• Prior contributions to open-source systems or database projects.

Before you apply

• Yugabyte is no longer able to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions filed after September 21, 2025 for new hires.
• Candidates who need H-1B extensions, changes of employer or other types of work authorization are still considered.

About the company

Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, an AI-ready, multi-modal, distributed PostgreSQL database for cloud-native apps. The database is used by enterprises such as Shopify, Paramount+, GM, Kroger, Fiserv and NPCI in over 100 countries.