VP, Engineering

YugabyteDB•Sunnyvale, CA

17h•$280,000 - $310,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The VP of Engineering for DBaaS leads the teams that build, ship, and operate every way customers consume YugabyteDB as a service. The role owns roadmap delivery, quality, and operations for YugabyteDB Aeon, Aeon BYOC, YugabyteDB Anywhere, and yugabyted, working across cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes on GKE, EKS, and AKS, Java frameworks, Python and shell automation, Terraform, and observability tooling across AWS, GCP, and Azure. The VP is the executive owner of production for Aeon and sets standards for incident response, on-call health, and service reliability. The role owns the DBaaS organization's Security and SRE charters, including product and cloud security, vulnerability management, compliance programs such as SOC 2, and practices to keep Aeon highly available, performant, and cost-efficient. The VP is responsible for resiliency, security, and cost implications of architectural decisions, and remains technically engaged in design reviews and major incidents. The VP leads a global organization of engineers, managers, and SREs across several geographies and reports to the SVP of Engineering. They hire and develop leaders, mentor and assess managers, and build an organization where people can do their best work and stay long term. The role partners closely with Product, the core database team, Support, and the field, and represents Engineering to the executive team. The position is based on a hybrid model, with the team together in the Sunnyvale office 2–3 days per week.

Requirements

15+ years of experience in software engineering.
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 for data infrastructure.
Experience owning or partnering closely with Security and SRE, including incident management, SLOs, and 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, including AWS, GCP, and/or Azure.
Experience with containerization tooling, theory, and design, including Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code; Terraform is preferred.
Experience with monitoring and observability systems; Prometheus is preferred.
Experience with CI/CD systems; GitHub Actions is preferred.
Experience with relational database systems; PostgreSQL is preferred.
Willingness and ability to learn new technologies and concepts.

Nice To Haves

Experience with databases or other stateful distributed systems.
Experience building a BYOC or hybrid deployment model, or a self-managed product alongside a managed service.
Experience at an open-source company and enthusiasm for working with the community.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow the DBaaS engineering organization, including hiring, mentoring, performance reviews, and developing future engineering leaders.
Own roadmap delivery 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 incident response, postmortem, and on-call processes 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 DBaaS products.
Partner with Support and the field on customer escalations and use findings to drive product improvements.
Own headcount, budget, and cloud spend, and report progress clearly to the executive team.