Director, Engineering

YugabyteDB

13d

About The Position

At Yugabyte, we are on a mission to become the default transactional database for enterprises building cloud-native applications. YugabyteDB is our PostgreSQL-compatible distributed database for cloud-native apps. Resilient, scalable, and flexible, it runs on any cloud and enables developers to become instantly productive using well-known APIs.We are looking for talented and driven people to join us on our ambitious mission and help us build a lasting and impactful company.The transactional database market is estimated to grow to $64B by 2025. YugabyteDB is cloud-native by design, has on-demand horizontal scalability, and supports geographical distribution of data using built-in replication. This means that we are well-positioned to meet market demand for geo-distributed, high-scale, high-performance workloads. Join the Database Revolution at Yugabyte. Modern applications need a cloud-native database that eliminates tradeoffs and silos. YugabyteDB retains the power and familiarity of PostgreSQL by pairing its trusted API with a precision-engineered, distributed, cloud-native architecture. Even better, it’s 100% open source. Many of the world's leading enterprises are migrating from legacy RDBMSs (like Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2) to YugabyteDB, to meet their mission-critical app demands. Director of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Overview We are seeking an experienced Director of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to lead and scale a high-performing reliability organization supporting both internal infrastructure and customer-facing reliability initiatives. This role is critical to ensuring the availability, scalability, and performance of our database platforms, including fully managed services and customer-deployed cloud environments. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise, a strong background in systems and infrastructure, and proven leadership experience managing SRE or reliability teams at scale.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Prior experience at established technology companies managing infrastructure and reliability at scale
Database experience is a strong plus, particularly with MySQL or similar relational databases
Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with technical depth
Strong communicator with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams

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

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