Staff Engineer | Security Engineering and Operations

Yugabyte builds YugabyteDB, a distributed PostgreSQL compatible database deployed in more than 100 countries and used by Shopify, Paramount Plus, GM, Kroger, Fiserv and NPCI. This role runs and improves the company's security engineering and operations capability, with vulnerability management named first, plus security automation, playbooks and operational readiness. The posting's opening questions are a fair description of the fit: it asks whether you are passionate about automation and eliminating security risk, and whether you have secured cloud products using security tooling. The bar is 8 to 11 years in the security domain with strong hands on automation. Yugabyte notes that its team spans more than 12 countries and multiple time zones, which is worth knowing for meeting patterns. Apply if you want product security work at a database company rather than corporate IT security.

Requirements as published:
- BS or MS degree.
- 8 to 11 years of experience in the security domain.
- Strong hands on automation skills.
- Experience securing cloud products and working with security tooling.

The actual day to day:
- Running and improving key security engineering and security operations capabilities.
- Vulnerability management, named first in the responsibilities.
- Security automation, playbooks and operational readiness.

Location and office reality:
- India. The posting does not name a city, and Yugabyte describes its team as distributed across more than 12 countries and multiple time zones. Ask about location expectations and about overlap hours with other regions.

Honest fit guidance:
- This is product and cloud security at a database company, so database and distributed systems familiarity helps even though it is not in the requirement list.
- The distributed team across 12 countries usually means some meetings outside Indian working hours. The posting does not state a shift, so ask.
- Yugabyte in this edition uses Staff for an 8 to 11 year role. Databricks in the same edition uses Senior Staff for 15 years. Titles are a local convention, not a level, which is why we publish the years the posting actually asks for.