Yugabyte - Leader - Engineering Platform

Engineering Leader, Platform

YugabyteDB is an open source, cloud-agnostic SQL and NoSQL distributed transactional database designed for scale and resilience. We aim to seize the legacy on-prem and emerging cloud markets for transactional workloads, while building a product that developers love.

Our Story :

- We founded Yugabyte after developing business-critical databases at Facebook & Oracle.

- Experts from Google, Microsoft & Nutanix have since joined to help us realize our vision for YugabyteDB, an open source, cloud native, distributed SQL database.

- Powered by a high-performance, globally-distributed document store that is built ground-up with inspiration from Google Spanner, YugabyteDB aims to make applications agile like never before.

- Yugabyte is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, and has its R&D presence in Bangalore & Pune. We are backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, 8VC, Dell Technologies Capital, Sapphire Ventures, and more.

Your Impact :

- We're looking for a seasoned engineering leader in the Cloud team that is responsible for building, operating, and maintaining a customer-facing DBaaS service in multiple public clouds (AWS, GCP, and Azure).

- The service supports unified multiverse management of YugabyteDB, including fault-domain aware provisioning, rolling upgrades, security, networking, monitoring, and day-2 operations (backups, scaling, billing etc).

- If you're a strong leader who exemplifies collaboration, who is driven and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, and who has a strong desire to build an internet-scale, extensible cloud based service with strong emphasis on simplicity and user experience, this job is for you.

You will :

- Lead, inspire, and influence to make sure your team is successful

- Partner with the recruiting team to attract and retain high-quality and diverse talent

- Establish great rapport with other development teams, Product Managers, Sales and Customer Success to maintain high levels of visibility, efficiency, and collaboration

- Ensure teams have appropriate technical direction, leadership and balance between short-term impact and long term architectural vision.

- Occasionally contributing to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical acumen sharp

You'll need :

- BS/MS degree in CS-or- a related field with 5+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams

- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development

- Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, keep engineers motivated, coach/mentor, and handle performance management

- Experience running production services in Public Clouds such as AWS, GCP, and Azure

- Experience with running large stateful data systems in the Cloud

- Prior knowledge of Cloud architecture and implementation features (multi-tenancy, containerization, orchestration, elastic scalability)

- A great track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently; should be able to move fast, build in increments and iterate; have a sense of urgency, aggressive mindset towards achieving results and excellent prioritization skills; able to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them

- Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques; focused on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team