Senior Software Engineer

What You’ll Do

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.

What We’re Looking For

Technical 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.
• Comfort working across the stack when the problem requires it.

Experience with modern frontend technologies such as JavaScript/TypeScript, React, HTML, a