Senior Yugabyte Specialist

Job Overview

• Role: Senior Yugabyte Specialist
• Department: Backend Engineering | Product & Platform Development
• Experience: 6 – 10 Years
• Location: Remote (Open to candidates anywhere)

About the Role

We are looking for an ambitious, experienced, and solution-oriented Senior Yugabyte Specialist with deep expertise in YugabyteDB. You will be an integral part of the product and platform development team, collaborating across multiple teams to deliver high-quality, highly scalable products that serve a large, distributed user base.

Key Responsibilities

• Scalable Feature Engineering: Design and develop product features delivered at massive scale, supporting high request volumes with strong performance and reliability.
• Database Ownership: Take complete ownership of business-driven data management within the primary live YugabyteDB environment.
• Optimization: Identify gaps and optimize database usage across the product suite.
• Infrastructure Collaboration: Partner with Infrastructure teams to maintain database clusters and stabilize/scale database infrastructure across the organization.
• Technical Leadership: Occasionally lead cross-team projects, review peers code and system designs, and uphold engineering best practices.
• Team Growth: Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and mentoring team members.

Requirements

• Backend & System Experience: 6+ years of medium to large-scale server-side software development experience with databases, distributed systems, and microservices architecture.
• Database Expertise: Proven experience operating YugabyteDB at scale in a distributed setup.
• Programming Languages: Proficiency in backend languages—Java or Clojure—in a production environment.
• Computer Science Foundations: In-depth knowledge of data structures, algorithmic time complexity, and experience architecting complex, scalable systems.
• Benchmarking & Systems: Experience benchmarking systems for performance/failure detection, alongside proficiency in POSIX-compliant OS (macOS/Linux) and CLI tools.
• Education & Soft Skills: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent), excellent problem-solving ability, strong communication skills, and experience mentoring peers.

Nice to Have

• Functional Programming: Strong knowledge of functional programming principles, particularly in Clojure.
• Project Management: Exposure to project management workflows and tools.