Yugabyte aims to be the default transactional database for enterprises building cloud-native applications, addressing the market's need for a resilient, scalable, and flexible distributed database that is PostgreSQL-compatible. The company is positioned to meet market demand for geo-distributed, high-scale, high-performance workloads by offering a cloud-native solution that eliminates tradeoffs and silos found in legacy RDBMSs.
Requirements
- 6-10 years experience with compiled languages, e.g. C/C++.
- Experience with compiled languages, e.g. C/C++ (preferred), Java, Go, Rust.
- Knowledge of database internals, compilers, query planning/optimization is a plus.
- Systems engineering fundamentals (e.g.: distributed systems, operating systems, databases) is a plus.
- Strong understanding of databases (SQL, NoSQL), cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Experience with distributed systems, data replication, and high-availability architectures.
- Hands-on experience with YugabyteDB or similar distributed SQL or SQL technologies (AuroraDB, Google Spanner, Azure Cosmos DB etc.).
Responsibilities
- Research, design, implement, test and release new database features and enhancements
- Write high quality C/C++ code and comprehensive test cases. Participate in the code review process
- Troubleshoot correctness, stability or performance issues related to statement planning and execution in a complex distributed system
- Identify and implement performance improvements such as enhancing plan selection, batching or parallelizing work, or pushing down plan subtrees to the data nodes
- Improve database scalability as we expand cluster sizes and transaction throughput
- Contribute to the growth of our open source database product, YugabyteDB
- Conduct tailored product demos, architecture deep-dives, and hands-on workshops for prospective customers.
Other
- Partner with Account Executives to qualify opportunities, understand customer requirements, and drive technical sales efforts.
- Lead proof-of-concept (POC) engagements, working directly with customer engineers to design, deploy, and validate YugabyteDB in their environment.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor on distributed databases, cloud-native architectures, and application design best practices.
- Create and maintain technical collateral (presentations, whitepapers, demo scripts, etc.) to support the sales process.
- Act as the voice of the customer by providing feedback to product, engineering, and support teams.
