C++ developer (YDB)

YDB is an open-source, distributed, fault-tolerant relational database that combines high availability, scalability, and performance. With its accompanying stack of serverless technology, YDB allows users to organize a data storage and processing system for the most complex and demanding applications. YDB is also a platform for creating infrastructure components, offering users reliable transactions on top of tables and ready-made solutions based on the engine itself, such as persistent queues, federated requests, and network drives for virtual machines (Yandex Network Block Store).

Help design and develop core components for YDB
We are constantly developing new algorithms for erasure data encoding, ensuring full support for the capabilities of modern equipment and increasing the degree of database automation. We also optimize reliability, storage density, write amplification, CPU consumption, network load, and system response time. We believe that C/C++ is the best language for developing system software like OS and databases, so YDB Core is written in C++.

Open source
YDB source code is published under the Apache 2.0 license, one of the most permissive true OSS licenses, so there’s no risk of cloud or vendor lock-in. We also often organize and take part in DB-related conferences and interact with the open source community.

Interact with Yandex teams and users to meet their needs with YDB
The YDB Platform Team has unique experience with cloud services. Before the cloud era, we provided services for internal company users, including other infrastructure teams, SRE, and product development. Now we provide our database to many different clients and share our code via open source.

• Have 5+ years of practical experience in C++ (or experience in Java, Python, Go, or C and are ready to switch to C++)
• Are passionate about writing in C++
• Have thorough knowledge of classic algorithms and data structures and are capable of applying them in your work
• Have a deep understanding of multithreading, including its main approaches, problems, and limitations
• Have experience developing high-load, distributed, hardware-adjacent services as well as real-time services

• Are familiar with NewSQL DB (CockroachDB, Couchbase, Yugabyte)
• Have experience with cloud services

• Strong team to grow with
• Complex assignments for services with millions of users
• Opportunity to impact the process and result
• Competitive salary
• Review-based bonuses every six months
• Flexible work schedule
• Relocation for EU countries