VP, DBaaS Engineering — Global Cloud Platform Leader

Yugabyte; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 280,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Retirement plans

Unlimited PTO

Equity (when applicable)

Job summary

Yugabyte, based in Sunnyvale, CA, seeks a Senior leader to head the DBaaS engineering organization. You will own the roadmap and production reliability for YugabyteDB Aeon, Aeon BYOC, YugabyteDB Anywhere, and yugabyted, working across modern cloud tools and platforms.

You will also helm Security and SRE, drive incident response, and ensure compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001) while collaborating with Product, Support, and field teams.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering with leadership of 50+ engineers across locations.
• Experience building/operating mission-critical cloud services or SaaS data platforms.
• Ownership of Security and SRE including incident management and compliance (SOC 2/ISO 27001).
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and cost-conscious architecture decisions.
• Proven ability to hire and grow leaders and teams; strong cross-functional collaboration.
• Clear, direct communication with engineers, executives, and customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the DBaaS engineering org, including hiring, mentoring, and reviews.
• Own delivery of roadmaps for YugabyteDB Aeon, Aeon BYOC, Anywhere, and yugabyted.
• Own availability, performance, and cost efficiency with SLOs and golden signals.
• Establish incident response processes, postmortems, and on-call across services.
• Lead Security charter, encryption, vulnerability management, and compliance.
• Build platform foundations for provisioning, upgrades, backups, observability, and automation.
• Partner with Support and field on escalations and product improvements.
• Own headcount, budget, and cloud spend; report progress to executives.

Skills

Leadership at scale

Cloud SaaS product ops

Security & SRE

Distributed systems

Clear communication

Hiring strong leaders

Cost optimization

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Prometheus

GitHub Actions

PostgreSQL

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Yugabyte, based in Sunnyvale, CA, seeks a Senior leader to head the DBaaS engineering organization. You will own the roadmap and production reliability for YugabyteDB Aeon, Aeon BYOC, YugabyteDB Anywhere, and yugabyted, working across modern cloud tools and platforms.

You will also helm Security and SRE, drive incident response, and ensure compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001) while collaborating with Product, Support, and field teams.