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VP, Engineering

Job Overview

As the VP of Engineering for DBaaS, you will lead the teams that build, ship, and run every way customers consume YugabyteDB as a service. You will work across a modern cloud stack: Kubernetes on GKE, EKS, and AKS, Java frameworks, Python and shell automation, Terraform, and observability tooling across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Key points

  1. Lead and grow the DBaaS engineering organization, including hiring, mentoring, performance reviews, and developing the next generation of engineering leaders.

  2. Own delivery of the roadmap for YugabyteDB Aeon, Aeon BYOC, YugabyteDB Anywhere, and yugabyted, in partnership with Product.

  3. Own the availability, performance, and cost efficiency of YugabyteDB Aeon, using SLOs and SRE golden signals to guide priorities.

  4. Establish and lead the process for incident response, postmortems, and on-call across databases and infrastructure.

  5. Strong track record of building and operating a mission-critical cloud service or SaaS platform, ideally for data infrastructure.

  6. Experience owning or partnering closely with Security and SRE, including incident management, SLOs, and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001.

  7. Technical depth in distributed systems and fault-tolerant designs, with the judgment to guide architecture and cost trade-offs.

  8. A record of hiring strong leaders and building engaged, high-performing teams.

Skills

SQLKubernetesAWSAzureGoogle CloudTerraformRoadmappingPython

Experience: Senior-level · 15+ years