Director of SRE, Yugabyte
$220-250k
Distributed postgreSQL for modern apps
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Distributed postgreSQL for modern apps
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-250k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To become the default database for cloud-native applications in a multi-cloud world.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
Desirable
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- Lead, mentor, and grow an SRE organization, initially managing a team of 8 engineers with plans to scale to 10–11 engineers
- 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
Our take
Traditional IT stacks and database solutions have rapidly become antiquated in recent years due to a surge in demand for cloud-native applications. SQL databases are typically the standard format for managing enterprise data, but integrating and scaling this infrastructure within the ever-changing field of cloud-based applications presents serious challenges.
Yugabyte develops a cloud-native and open-source SQL product named YugabyteDB, a database system that is designed to be easily scalable, flexible and resilient when integrated within cloud-based applications. Through PostgreSQL compatibility, automated data recovery and high computing power, the startup claims that its database solution reduces downtime, optimizes security, and reduces increases compatible infrastructure options.
With the migration from legacy database systems to cloud-based solutions a necessity rather than an option for many enterprises, Yugabyte has made a smart move by providing a flexible and accessible solution to integrate familiar SQL databases within a cloud-based setup. Its range of strategic partnerships and product development has the company well set to see further growth.
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Insights
17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2021
$188m
SERIES C
Mar 2021
$48m
LATE VC
Total funding: $290m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance
- Company Stock Options
- Retirement Plans
- Home Office Set-Up Reimbursement
- Professional Development Reimbursement
- Quarterly Wellness Days Off
- Unlimited PTO
- Childcare benefits
- Performance bonuses
Company HQ
Sunnyvale, CA
Leadership
Kannan Muthukkaruppan
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Earned an MSc in Computer Science at University of California. Previously Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle for 13 years, Technical Lead at Facebook for 5 years and Engineer at Nutanix for 3 years.
Karthik Ranganathan
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Earned an MSc in Computer Science from The University of Texas. Previously Software Design Engineer at Microsoft Corporation for 2 years, Software Engineer at Netsuite for 8 months and Technical Lead at Facebook for 5 years.
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