Yugabyte: Sr 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 Sr Software Engineer in India, under reference 4679058006. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Technology
• Employer listing date: 5 May 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• The Security Engineer is responsible for running and improving key security engineering and security operations capabilities, including vulnerability management, detection and monitoring platforms, hardening initiatives, and security automation
• This is a hands-on role spanning Panther, Wazuh, RapidFort, hardened images, PCI scanning, egress alerting, backup automation, playbook development, and AI-assisted security workflows, with close partnership across engineering, infrastructure, and compliance functions
• A security engineer who is passionate about cybersecurity and enjoys working in a fast-paced startup environment, and who has a desire to learn new technologies
• Security monitoring and detection engineering
• Vulnerability management and remediation coordination
• Security tooling administration and improvement
• Platform and image hardening initiatives
• Compliance-supporting security controls
• Security automation, playbooks, and operational readiness

Essential requirements and candidate background

• BS/MS degree
• 5-8 years of experience in security domain
• Hands-on automation skills(BASH, Python)
• Practical expertise using AI tools to accelerate engineering and operations
• Familiarity: a modern SaaS infrastructure and application development
• Familiarity: major security protocols
• Collaboration, transparency and integrity
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Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Advertised location: India

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Yugabyte

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Practical preparation: Python

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Relevant skills

• Python
• AI/ML
• SQL
• AI
• cybersecurity
• compliance
• recruitment
• partnership development
• security operations