Requirements:

Significant Platform Engineering experience, with demonstrated senior ownership of production platform systems at scale.
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP).
Strong Python development skills (or similar).
Solid understanding of software engineering principles - writing secure, testable, maintainable code.
Proficiency with Cloud APIs and DevOps tooling (Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Teleport).
Clear communicator who collaborates well across teams.

Nice to haves:

Ability to clearly articulate technical trade-offs, business impact, and customer value.
Experience leading or significantly contributing to incident response and post-incident improvement.

Design, build, and evolve our internal cloud-based database platform.
Lead these initiatives end-to-end, optimising for predictable delivery and measurable outcomes.
Define the long-term automation strategy, including migrations, upgrades, and failure recovery patterns.
Help embed security and compliance controls (encryption, auth, RBAC, network controls) into Yugabyte platform components.
Be accountable for the availability, reliability, and security of the systems you own.
Collaborate with product teams, SREs and DBAs to apply platform guardrails for services adopting database technologies.
Act as the escalation point for your area, leading minor and major incident resolution and post-incident reviews.
Mentor and coach other engineers, support onboarding, and actively reduce single points of failure.
Participate in on-call rotations and provide senior escalation support when required.
Represent the team in cross-tribe or cross-company engineering efforts and guilds.
Participate in interviewing and hiring activities, following best practices and helping maintain a high engineering bar.