Staff Engineer, Distributed Storage & Transactions

Yugabyte; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Retirement plans

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Yugabyte is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Distributed Storage & Transactions (DST) team in Sunnyvale, CA. You will design, build, and scale core distributed storage, replication, and transaction foundations of YugabyteDB.

You will tackle consistency, durability, fault tolerance, performance, and scalability while collaborating with query layer, platform, and cloud teams. This is low-level systems work for engineers who want to shape a globally distributed database.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong foundation in systems programming using C/C++.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, testing, and delivery of core storage and replication features in YugabyteDB.
• Write high-quality C/C++ code with automated tests; participate in design discussions and code reviews.
• Troubleshoot and resolve correctness, stability, and performance issues in distributed storage and transactional subsystems.
• Improve database scalability and throughput as clusters grow.
• Build and streamline database management operations, including horizontal scale-out, backups, and online schema changes.
• Contribute to the open-source YugabyteDB project and mentor other engineers.

Skills

C/C++

Distributed systems

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in Computer Science

Tools

PostgreSQL internals

Open-source contributions

Job description

Yugabyte is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Distributed Storage & Transactions (DST) team in Sunnyvale, CA. You will design, build, and scale core distributed storage, replication, and transaction foundations of YugabyteDB.

You will tackle consistency, durability, fault tolerance, performance, and scalability while collaborating with query layer, platform, and cloud teams. This is low-level systems work for engineers who want to shape a globally distributed database.