VP, Engineering - Cloud DBaaS Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Retirement plans

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Yugabyte is seeking a VP of Engineering for DBaaS to lead global engineering efforts delivering YugabyteDB Aeon, Aeon BYOC, YugabyteDB Anywhere, and yugabyted. You will own roadmaps, reliability, and cost efficiency, partnering with Product, Support, and field teams across cloud platforms.

The role requires deep distributed systems expertise, strong leadership, and a track record in cloud services with SOC 2 / ISO 27001 familiarity. Hybrid work in Sunnyvale.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering, including several years leading managers and organizations of 50+ engineers across multiple locations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the DBaaS engineering organization, including hiring, mentoring, performance reviews, and developing the next generation of engineering leaders
• Own delivery of the roadmap for YugabyteDB Aeon, Aeon BYOC, YugabyteDB Anywhere, and yugabyted, in partnership with Product
• Own the availability, performance, and cost efficiency of YugabyteDB Aeon, using SLOs and SRE golden signals to guide priorities
• Establish and lead the process for incident response, postmortems, and on-call across databases and infrastructure
• Lead the Security charter, including secure design, encryption and key management, vulnerability management, and compliance certifications
• Build shared platform foundations for provisioning, upgrades, backups, observability, and automation across all DBaaS products
• Partner with Support and the field on customer escalations and turn what we learn into product improvements
• Own headcount, budget, and cloud spend, and report progress clearly to the executive team

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Security & SRE

Cloud platforms

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Terraform

Prometheus

GitHub Actions

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Prometheus

GitHub Actions

PostgreSQL

Job description

Yugabyte is seeking a VP of Engineering for DBaaS to lead global engineering efforts delivering YugabyteDB Aeon, Aeon BYOC, YugabyteDB Anywhere, and yugabyted. You will own roadmaps, reliability, and cost efficiency, partnering with Product, Support, and field teams across cloud platforms.

The role requires deep distributed systems expertise, strong leadership, and a track record in cloud services with SOC 2 / ISO 27001 familiarity. Hybrid work in Sunnyvale.