# Director of Engineering, Core Database at Yugabyte

- Company: Yugabyte
- What the company does: The distributed PostgreSQL database for agents and AI-native workloads. Start serverless and grow to mission-critical. Never re-platform. Backed by Lightspeed and Sapphire.
- Company website: https://yugabyte.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Sunnyvale, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-03-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/yugabyte/jobs/4655788006
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/yugabyte-director-of-engineering-core-database/

## About the role

Technical Strategy & Architecture: 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). Engineering Execution: Own the end-to-end development, quality, performance, and operational excellence of your teams' components, ensuring deployment in cloud-native environments (e.g., Kubernetes).

## What they're looking for

- The ideal candidate will have demonstrated senior leadership in domains directly applicable to distributed databases:
- Experience: 10+ years of progressive software development experience, with at least 3+ years in a Director role managing multiple teams or critical product areas
- Database Internals Expertise: 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)
- Core Programming Languages: Hands-on experience in systems programming languages, particularly C/C++ and Go
- Scalability and Performance: 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)
- YugabyteDB/PostgreSQL: Experience with PostgreSQL internals or PostgreSQL-compatible distributed databases

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