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Yugabyte · 15 hours ago

Director of SRE

Yugabyte 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 a high-performing reliability organization and ensure the availability and performance of their database platforms.

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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

SRE leadershipInfrastructure managementCloud-native technologiesDatabase experienceSystems administrationCommunicatorOperational excellenceTeam mentoring

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
Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with technical depth
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

Benefits

Health plans
Retirement plans
Unlimited paid time off (PTO)

Company

Yugabyte

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Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$291M
Key Investors
Sapphire VenturesLightspeed Venture Partners8VC
2021-10-28Series C· $188M
2021-03-03Series B· $48M
2020-06-09Series B· $30M

Leadership Team

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Kannan Muthukkaruppan
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
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Karthik Ranganathan
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
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