Y
YugabyteSunnyvale, CA
Director of Engineering (Core Database)
HybridFull Time$220k - $250k per yearPosted 3 days ago
About the role
- Yugabyte is seeking an experienced and accomplished Director of Engineering to lead key aspects of our distributed SQL database development
- This leader will drive the architecture, development, and delivery of core transactional, storage, and distributed systems components, ensuring YugabyteDB maintains industry-leading performance, scalability, and resilience. They will also manage and mentor our growing team
- You will lead one or more critical engineering teams focused on the heart of YugabyteDB, bringing technical depth in database internals and distributed systems to mentor and grow a world-class engineering organization
- 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 Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Company Stock Options
- Retirement Plans
- Home Office Set-Up Reimbursement
- Professional Development Reimbursement
- Quarterly Wellness Days Off
- Unlimited PTO
- Childcare benefits
- Performance bonuses
- This role requires a mix of software architecture expertise to design and implement practical solutions, as well as the ability to work closely with developers to identify patterns and tools that simplify solution building
- This position demands a blend of hands-on architectural expertise, large-scale systems design, and the ability to execute against an ambitious product roadmap, with a deep understanding of transactional databases, distributed systems, and microservice-based applications
- The ideal candidate will have demonstrated senior leadership in domains directly applicable to distributed databases:
- Experience: 10+ years of progressive software development experience, with at least 3+ years in a Director role managing multiple teams or critical product areas
- Distributed Systems & Cloud-Native Architectures: 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
- Scalability and Performance: 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)
- Database Internals Expertise: 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)
- Core Programming Languages: Hands-on experience in systems programming languages, particularly C/C++ and Go
- YugabyteDB/PostgreSQL: Experience with PostgreSQL internals or PostgreSQL-compatible distributed databases
- NoSQL Databases: Familiarity with NoSQL databases
- Data Technologies: Experience with technologies common in the Yugabyte ecosystem, such as Apache Bookkeeper, Spark, Kafka, or other NoSQL/Graph databases (e.g., Neo4J)
- Open Source & Research: Contributions to open-source database projects, patents, or successfully integrating research concepts (e.g., ML-based anomaly detection) into products
- Cloud & Kubernetes: Hands-on experience with modern public cloud infrastructure and cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and Prometheus