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VP, Engineering

Yugabyte · Sunnyvale, CA · On-site

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About Yugabyte

The distributed PostgreSQL database for agents and AI-native workloads. Start serverless and grow to mission-critical. Never re-platform. Backed by Lightspeed and Sapphire.

About the role

At Yugabyte, we are on a mission to build an open source, high-performance, distributed, and fault-tolerant PostgreSQL-compatible database for powering global, internet-scale applications. Our Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) organization brings YugabyteDB to customers wherever they run: as a fully managed service on the major clouds with YugabyteDB Aeon, inside their own cloud accounts with Aeon BYOC, in their own data centers and Kubernetes environments with YugabyteDB Anywhere, and on a developer's laptop with... Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 15+ years in software engineering, including several years leading managers and organizations of 35+ engineers across multiple locations
  • Strong track record of 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 the judgment to guide architecture and cost trade-offs
  • A record of hiring strong leaders and building engaged, high-performing teams
  • Clear, direct communication with engineers, executives, and customers
More about this role

Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB , the AI-ready, multi-modal, distributed PostgreSQL database for cloud-native apps. Trusted by industry leaders including Shopify, Paramount+, GM, Kroger, Fiserv, and NPCI, YugabyteDB has been deployed in over 100 countries and powers more than 5 million clusters worldwide.

Together, our hard-working team of experts and our industry-leading technology are uniquely positioned to meet the demands of modern workloads: geo-distributed, ultra-resilient, and built to scale without limits.

Our Yugabeings (distributed, like our database) span 12+ countries and multiple time zones, sharing expertise from diverse backgrounds and industries.

Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, the AI-ready, multi-modal, distributed PostgreSQL database for cloud-native apps. Trusted by industry leaders including Shopify, Paramount+, GM, Kroger, Fiserv, and NPCI, YugabyteDB has been deployed in over 100 countries and powers more than 5 million clusters worldwide.

Together, our hard-working team of experts and our industry-leading technology are uniquely positioned to meet the demands of modern workloads: geo-distributed, ultra-resilient, and built to scale...

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