Staff Engineer Distributed Storage and Transaction
YugabyteDB2 days ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, testing, and delivery of core YugabyteDB storage, replication, and transaction features.
- Write high-quality C/C++ code, automated tests, and participate in design discussions and code reviews.
- Troubleshoot correctness, stability, and performance issues in distributed storage and transaction subsystems.
- Improve database scalability and throughput across storage, transaction processing, and replication layers.
- Build and streamline cluster scale-out, backups, schema and index operations, rolling upgrades, and blue-green deployments.
- Contribute to the open-source YugabyteDB project and mentor and technically influence other engineers.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong C/C++ systems programming experience.
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including replication, consensus, transactions, consistency models, fault tolerance, and recovery.
- Experience with storage engines, databases, or other infrastructure-level systems.
- Preferred experience includes distributed storage systems, transactional engines, consensus protocols, LSM-tree storage engines, WALs, snapshots, compaction strategies, PostgreSQL internals, and open-source systems or database projects.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with the team together in the Sunnyvale office 2–3 days per week.
- Health plans, retirement plans, and unlimited paid time off (PTO).
- Equity when applicable.
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About YugabyteDB
YugabyteDB builds an open-source, PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database for cloud-native, transactional applications, delivered as software and as a managed service. Privately held and founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Customers in retail, financial services, and media include Shopify and Kroger, and deployments span public clouds, private clouds, and Kubernetes environments.