VP, Engineering
YugabyteDB · Sunnyvale, CA
About this role
**About Yugabyte** Yugabyte is the company behind **YugabyteDB**—an 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. **Role: VP, Engineering (DBaaS)** 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 own the roadmap delivery, quality, and operation of **YugabyteDB Aeon**, **Aeon BYOC**, **YugabyteDB Anywhere**, and **yugabyted**. You’ll work across a modern cloud stack including **Kubernetes** (GKE, EKS, AKS), **Java frameworks**, **Python and shell automation**, **Terraform**, and **observability** across **AWS, GCP, and Azure**. You will also be the executive owner of production for Aeon—setting the standard for incident response, on-call health, and the reliability customers count on. You will own the **Security** and **SRE** charters for the DBaaS organization, including product and cloud security, vulnerability management, compliance programs such as **SOC 2**, and SRE practices that keep Aeon highly available, performant, and cost-efficient. You will lead a global organization of engineers, managers, and SREs across multiple geographies, reporting to the **SVP of Engineering**. You will hire and grow strong leaders, mentor and assess managers, and build an organization where people do their best work and stay for the long run. --- **Responsibilities** - Lead and grow the DBaaS engineering organization (hiring, mentoring, performance reviews, and developing future engineering leaders) - Own delivery of the roadmap for YugabyteDB Aeon, Aeon BYOC, YugabyteDB Anywhere, and yugabyted (in partnership with Product) - Own availability, performance, and cost efficiency of YugabyteDB Aeon using **SLOs** and SRE golden signals - Establish and lead incident response, postmortems, and on-call across databases and infrastructure - Lead the Security charter (secure design, encryption & key management, vulnerability management, compliance certifications) - Build shared platform foundations for provisioning, upgrades, backups, observability, and automation across DBaaS products - Partner with Support and the field on customer escalations and turn learnings into product improvements - Own headcount, budget, and cloud spend; report progress clearly to the executive team --- **Requirements** - **15+ years** in software engineering, including several years leading managers and organizations of **50+ engineers** across multiple locations - Strong track record building and operating a mission-critical cloud service or SaaS platform (ideally data infrastructure) - Experience owning or partnering closely with Security and SRE (incident management, SLOs, compliance frameworks such as **SOC 2** or **ISO 27001**) - Technical depth in distributed systems and fault-tolerant designs, with judgment to guide architecture and cost trade-offs - Record of hiring strong leaders and building engaged, high-performing teams - Clear, direct communication with engineers, executives, and customers - Experience with: - Public cloud infrastructure (**AWS, GCP, and/or Azure**) - Containerization tooling and design (**Docker, Kubernetes**) - Infrastructure as Code (**Terraform preferred**) - Monitoring and observability (**Prometheus preferred*
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