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Yugabyte · 1 day ago

Sr. Director of Engineering

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. The Sr. Director of Engineering will lead the development of core transactional, storage, and distributed systems components of YugabyteDB, ensuring industry-leading performance and scalability while managing and mentoring a growing engineering team.

Cloud InfrastructureDatabaseEnterprise SoftwareOpen Source

No H1B

Responsibilities

Technical Strategy & Architecture: 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)

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

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

Systems Scaling & Reliability: 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

Cross-Functional Collaboration: 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)