Senior Software Engineer

YugabyteDB is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in India.

Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, the AI-ready, multi-modal, distributed PostgreSQL database for cloud-native apps. Trusted by industry leaders including Shopify, Paramount+, GM, Kroger, Fiserv, and NPCI, YugabyteDB has been deployed in over 100 countries and powers more than 5 million clusters worldwide. Together, our hard-working team of experts and our industry-leading technology are uniquely positioned to meet the demands of modern workloads: geo-distributed, ultra-resilient, and built to scale without limits. Our Yugabeings (distributed, like our database) span 12+ countries and

Responsibilities

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.

• Contribute 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.

• Collaborate 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.

Skills

We are looking for a generalist engineer with strong fundamentals rather than someone who knows only one technology deeply.

You should have:

• Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals.

• Experience with 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.

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

• Ability to understand unfamiliar codebases and technologies quickly.

• Familiarity with modern AI/LLM technologies and an interest in applying them to engineering and/or product problems.

About YugabyteDB

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