Director of Engineering, Core Database

Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, a distributed PostgreSQL database for cloud-native apps. They are seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the development of core database components, ensuring performance and scalability while mentoring a growing engineering team.

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

Requirements:

• 10+ years of progressive software development experience, with at least 3+ years in a 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)
• 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)