Yugabyte · 17 hours ago
Director, Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
10+ years expYugabyte is on a mission to become the default transactional database for enterprises building cloud-native applications. They are seeking an experienced Director of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to lead and scale a high-performing reliability organization, ensuring the availability, scalability, and performance of their database platforms.
Cloud InfrastructureDatabaseEnterprise SoftwareOpen Source
Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and grow an SRE organization, initially managing a team of 8 engineers with plans to scale to 10–11 engineers
Own reliability strategy across both:
Inbound SRE responsibilities: infrastructure as code, patching, observability, monitoring, incident response, and automation
Outbound reliability responsibilities: customer-facing reliability engineering, escalations, and proactive support for production environments
Drive operational excellence, availability, and performance across cloud-native database platforms
Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Customer-facing teams to ensure reliability is built into the product lifecycle
Establish and refine best practices for incident management, SLAs/SLOs, capacity planning, and operational readiness
Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for systems operating at scale in cloud environments
Contribute to hiring, team structure, and long-term organizational planning for the SRE function
Qualification
Required
Proven experience leading SRE, Infrastructure, or Customer Reliability Engineering teams
Strong background in systems administration with a demonstrated progression into people management and leadership roles
Experience managing both internal infrastructure operations and customer-facing reliability initiatives
Hands-on knowledge of modern infrastructure tooling, automation, and cloud-native technologies
Ability to operate effectively in a fast-growing, highly technical environment
10+ years of industry experience in SRE, infrastructure, systems engineering, or related fields
Prior experience at established technology companies managing infrastructure and reliability at scale
Strong communicator with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams
Preferred
Database experience is a strong plus, particularly with MySQL or similar relational databases
Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with technical depth
Company
Yugabyte
Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$291MKey Investors
Sapphire VenturesLightspeed Venture Partners8VC
2021-10-28Series C· $188M
2021-03-03Series B· $48M
2020-06-09Series B· $30M
Leadership Team
Kannan Muthukkaruppan
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Karthik Ranganathan
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
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