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Yugabyte · 1 day ago

Sr. Director of Engineering – Core Database

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

10+ years exp

Yugabyte is on a mission to become the default transactional database for enterprises building cloud-native applications. They are seeking a Sr. Director of Engineering to lead the development of their distributed SQL database, driving architecture, development, and delivery of core components while managing and mentoring engineering teams.

Cloud InfrastructureDatabaseEnterprise SoftwareOpen Source

No H1B

Responsibilities

Define and drive the technical roadmap and architecture for core database components, including the storage engine (LSM/RocksDB), transactional layer, distributed consensus (RAFT), and multi-master replication (xCluster)

Own the end-to-end development, quality, performance, and operational excellence of your teams' components, ensuring deployment in cloud-native environments (e.g., Kubernetes)

Recruit, mentor, and manage high-performing engineering teams. Foster a culture of deep technical ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Lead projects focused on write scaling, improving concurrency (e.g., DDL concurrency), ensuring cache coherency, and achieving 99.995% availability in distributed, multi-tenant, cloud-native environments

Partner closely with Product Management, Technical Leadership (TDs/CTO), and other engineering teams (Query Optimizer, QA) to define requirements and deliver integrated, impactful features

Qualification

Database Internals ExpertiseDistributed SystemsCloud-Native ArchitecturesCore Programming LanguagesScalabilityPerformanceYugabyteDB/PostgreSQLCloud & KubernetesNoSQL DatabasesOpen Source & ResearchData Technologies

Required

10+ years of progressive software development experience, with at least 3+ years in a Director/Sr. Director role managing multiple teams or critical product areas

Substantial experience designing and developing core components of production-grade relational or distributed database engines (e.g., storage/access layer, buffer cache, logging, recovery, lock management, indexing, LSM)

Proven ability to design and deliver internet-scale, highly available, multi-tenant distributed systems, leveraging technologies such as Service Fabric, distributed lock managers, distributed transaction managers, and cloud object storage

Hands-on experience in systems programming languages, particularly C/C++ and Go

Direct experience resolving performance bottlenecks (e.g., range scans, nested loop joins) and re-architecting systems for massive scaling (e.g., separating log/data, multi-writer architectures)

Preferred

Experience with PostgreSQL internals or PostgreSQL-compatible distributed databases

Hands-on experience with modern public cloud infrastructure and cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and Prometheus

Familiarity with NoSQL databases

Contributions to open-source database projects, patents, or successfully integrating research concepts (e.g., ML-based anomaly detection) into products

Experience with technologies common in the Yugabyte ecosystem, such as Apache Bookkeeper, Spark, Kafka, or other NoSQL/Graph databases (e.g., Neo4J)