Yugabyte: Staff 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 Staff Engineer in India, under reference 4651617006. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Technology
• Employer listing date: 24 February 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• As a Staff Engineer on the Distributed Storage & Transactions (DST) team, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and scaling the core distributed storage, replication, and transaction foundations of YugabyteDB
• Work: on some of the most challenging problems in distributed systems — including consistency, durability, fault tolerance, performance, and scalability — while collaborating closely with query layer, platform, and cloud teams
• This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in low-level systems work and want to shape the future of a globally distributed database
• Leadership: the design, development, testing, and delivery of core storage and replication features in YugabyteDB
• Write high-quality C/C++ code with comprehensive automated tests; actively participate in design discussions and code reviews
• Troubleshoot and resolve correctness, stability, and performance issues in complex distributed storage and transactional subsystems
• Improvement: database scalability and throughput as cluster sizes, data volumes, and transaction rates continue to grow
• Building: and streamline database management operations, including:
• Horizontal cluster scale-out
• Incremental and point-in-time backups
• Online schema and index operations
• Rolling upgrades and blue-green deployments
• Identify and implement performance improvements across the storage engine, transaction processing, and replication layers
• Contribution: to the open-source YugabyteDB project, helping evolve its storage architecture and operational reliability
• Mentor and technically influence other engineers in distributed systems design, performance engineering, and systems-level debugging

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a foundation in systems programming using C/C++
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science (or related field), or equivalent practical experience
• Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including:
• Replication and consensus
• Transactions and consistency models
• Fault tolerance and recovery
• Experience working on storage engines, databases, or other infrastructure-level systems
• Problem-solving skills and the ability to operate effectively in a collaborative, distributed team environment

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Experience: distributed storage systems, transactional engines, or consensus protocols
• Familiarity: LSM-tree based storage engines, WALs, snapshots, or compaction strategies
• Experience: PostgreSQL internals or other relational database engines is a plus
• Prior contributions to open-source systems or database projects
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Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Advertised location: India

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Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Yugabyte

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Practical preparation: C++

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Relevant skills

• C++
• SQL
• AI
• recruitment
• problem resolution