Staff Engineer: Distributed Storage & Transactions

Yugabyte; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; 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 to design, build, and scale core storage and replication foundations of YugabyteDB. You will tackle challenging distributed systems issues such as consistency, durability, fault tolerance, and performance.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with query layer and cloud teams, and contribute to open-source YugabyteDB.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in systems programming
• Strong background in C/C++ and distributed systems fundamentals
• Experience with storage engines, databases, or infrastructure-level systems
• Excellent problem-solving and ability to work in a collaborative, distributed team environment

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, testing, and delivery of core storage and replication features in YugabyteDB
• Write high-quality C/C++ code with automated tests and participate in reviews
• Troubleshoot correctness, stability, and performance issues in distributed subsystems
• Improve scalability and throughput as data and transaction volumes grow
• Support operations: horizontal scale-out, backups, online schema/index operations, blue‑green deployments
• Mentor engineers in distributed systems design and performance engineering

Skills

C/C++ programming

Distributed systems

Cross-team collaboration

Problem-solving

Storage engines

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 to design, build, and scale core storage and replication foundations of YugabyteDB. You will tackle challenging distributed systems issues such as consistency, durability, fault tolerance, and performance.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with query layer and cloud teams, and contribute to open-source YugabyteDB.