SrSoftwareEngineer

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 multiple time zones, sharing expertise from diverse backgrounds and industries. The LRT group is responsible for the language layer and relational execution engine powering YugabyteDB. We care deeply about correctness, performance, and usability of the system we are building. We are always looking for innovative solutions to these challenges, be it from other industry applications, academic research or original contributions, as our team’s work powers a broad range of components. The team's work areas include query planning and optimization, consistent online schema changes, as well as a broad set of SQL features including stored procedures, triggers, geo-partitioned tables, or GIN indexes for text search. Roles and Responsibilities Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of the distributed SQL query execution engine in YugabyteDB, ensuring correctness, efficiency, and horizontal scalability. Own and enhance execution-layer components including distributed scans, joins, aggregations, sorting, batching, parallel execution, RPC coordination, and runtime memory management. Optimize distributed execution paths by minimizing cross-node communication, reducing data movement, improving pushdown to storage layer, and enhancing execution pipelining. Improve runtime observability by enhancing execution metrics, tracing, profiling, and debugging capabilities to support production-g