Yugabyte: Senior Software Engineer — India

About Yugabyte

Yugabyte develops distributed database software. Its YugabyteDB provides a PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database designed for cloud-native and mission-critical applications, scaling across regions and clouds while keeping transactions resilient. Organisations with large transactional workloads use these databases, which are available as open-source distribution alongside commercial subscription and database-service offerings. The employer feed lists engineering, support and related roles around its database products.

The position and its setting

Yugabyte lists Senior Software Engineer in India, under reference 4717014006. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Sales & Marketing
• Employer listing date: 16 October 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• As a Software Engineer, you will work on a broad range of technical and product challenges across the YugabyteDB ecosystem and Meko ( mekodata.ai )
• The problems you work on will evolve over time — and that is intentional
• Meko is our AI-focused product initiative, giving engineers an opportunity to work hands-on with modern AI technologies and build real-world AI-powered experiences
• You will:
• Design, build, debug, and improve software across different parts of the YugabyteDB and Meko ecosystems
• Work: across areas such as distributed systems, databases, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, APIs, developer tooling, automation, and AI
• Contribution: to building and evolving Meko, including AI-powered products, experiences, and developer capabilities
• Investigate complex technical problems and drive them from problem identification through implementation and delivery
• Prototype new ideas, evaluate emerging technologies, and turn promising experiments into production-quality solutions
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity, reliability, automation, and customer experience
• Use AI and AI-assisted development to accelerate engineering workflows, troubleshoot complex problems, automate repetitive tasks, and explore new product capabilities
• Collaboration: with engineers, product managers, architects, support, and customers to understand problems and develop practical solutions
• Take ownership of projects with ambiguous requirements and bring clarity, structure, and momentum to them
• Learn new technologies and domains quickly and apply them to real-world problems

Essential requirements and candidate background

• A generalist engineer with fundamentals rather than someone who knows only one technology deeply
• You should have:
• Programming and software engineering fundamentals
• Experience: one or more languages such as Python, Go, Java, C++, or Rust
• Good understanding of several areas such as:
• Distributed systems
• Databases and data management
• Cloud infrastructure
• Containers and Kubernetes
• Linux and systems engineering
• Observability, debugging, and performance
• APIs and application development
• Experience building and operating production-quality software
• Problem-solving and debugging skills
• Understand unfamiliar codebases and technologies quickly
• Familiarity: modern AI/LLM technologies and an interest in applying them to engineering and/or product problems
• Comfort working across the stack when the problem requires it
• You don’t need to be an expert in every technology listed above
• Curiosity, fundamentals, technical breadth, and the ability to learn quickly are more important than matching every item

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Experience: modern frontend technologies such as JavaScript/TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS is a plus, particularly for engineers interested in building end-to-end product experiences

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Advertised location: India

Pay and application dates

A verified salary figure is not established in this article. An online estimate for another Senior Software Engineer vacancy is not an offer for reference 4717014006; use the employer’s own pay disclosure and recruitment communication.

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How to apply to Yugabyte

Applications follow the official employer page linked below.

Open the official Yugabyte posting below and match the title and reference 4717014006.

Compare your qualifications and experience with the essential conditions for the India position, then read the preferred criteria separately.

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Practical preparation: Python

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Relevant skills

• Python
• Java
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• C++
• Kubernetes
• APIs
• AI/ML
• LLMs
• React
• Linux