Sr. Director of Engineering – Core Database
YugabyteDB
About this role
The Sr. Director of Engineering — Core Database will lead the technical vision and organization responsible for YugabyteDB’s core transactional, storage, and distributed systems components. This role focuses on ensuring industry-leading performance, scalability, resilience, and delivery of the product while growing and mentoring high-performing engineering teams. The leader will partner with product and technical leadership to align architecture and roadmap with company goals.
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About YugabyteDB
yugabyte.comYugabyte builds YugabyteDB, an open-source, cloud-native distributed SQL database that is Postgres‑compatible and positioned as AI‑ready for mission‑critical applications. It provides horizontal scalability, geo‑distribution, and high availability to deliver low‑latency, resilient transactional and analytic workloads across public and hybrid clouds. YugabyteDB exposes familiar PostgreSQL APIs and tooling while adding distributed consistency, fault tolerance, and multi‑modal data access. Enterprises use it to modernize legacy databases and run global, internet‑scale applications reliably.
Recent company news
Business WireYugabyteDB’s Strategic Partnership with Rakuten Mobile Revolutionizes Petabyte-Scale, Cloud-Native, Telecom Infrastructure
Jul 15, 2025
Google CloudBuilding geo-distributed applications on GKE with YugabyteDB
Apr 12, 2023
HPCwireYugabyteDB Unveils First Agentic AI Application and Extensible Vector Search For Deploying AI at Scale
1 month ago
SiliconANGLEYugabyteDB evolves into a distributed PostgreSQL database for apps that need resilience and scale
Sep 19, 2024
Business WireYugabyteDB Extends its Vector Search Functionality and PostgreSQL Compatibility for AI App-Developers
Jul 22, 2025
About YugabyteDB
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Leadership Team
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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Salary
$196k – $258k
per year
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