Director of Engineering

Position Overview: 

At SingleStore we're not just building a database, we are building a data platform. We believe that every company deserves a scalable, performant, reliable, and easy to use solution to their operational and analytic data needs, and our SingleStore Engineering Team is focused on ensuring we exceed these requirements. The team's product includes a hybrid cloud control plane based on Kubernetes, real-time health monitoring, a revolutionary visual dashboard, and a SQL IDE. The SingleStore Managed Service team ships continuously-deployed production services and works to provide the best possible SingleStore experience.

As one of the leaders of SingleStore Managed Service, you will have the opportunity to lead a rapidly growing team that builds and operates the control plane and Kubernetes operator powering our cloud solution. You will help create and execute on the technical development roadmap for SingleStore Managed Service. You’ll foster a team culture of collaboration and learning. You’ll work closely with our database engine, infrastructure, product, and go to market teams to prioritize and ensure we deliver a complete product. You’ll coach, motivate, empower, attract and retain a highly performant team to deliver consistently high quality work. You’ll empower your team to iterate and innovate quickly, removing obstacles to their success. 

You will have the opportunity to work with some of the best software engineers in the industry. You will help us to disrupt the next generation of cloud native databases and database as a service. If you are passionate about compute-storage separation, extreme and on-demand elasticity, serverless database as a service, this will be your dream job.

Your Background

You are an experienced engineering leader with a proven ability to execute complex technical projects. You have a strong taste of good engineering practice around testing, continuous delivery, automation, and technical debt. You have experience, either as a manager, working on a fast growing SaaS product. You are an inspiring leader, both for attracting new talent as well as keeping your existing team excited and engaged in the problem at hand. You are passionate about building a highly reliable service.

Desired Qualifications

• Proven ability to hire and retain top talent
• Experience developing tools and services in a SaaS environment (Go experience a plus)
• Experience leading and working on distributed teams
• Experience with cloud native service delivery, particularly with containers and Kubernetes
• Experience with at least one of these cloud providers: AWS, Azure, or GCP.

SingleStore is one platform for all data, built so you can engage with insight in every moment. Trusted by industry leaders, SingleStore enables enterprises to adapt to change as it happens, embrace diverse data with ease, and accelerate the pace of innovation. SingleStore is venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Portland, Seattle, Boston, Bangalore, London, Lisbon, and Kyiv. Defining the future starts with The Database of Now™.

Headquartered in San Francisco, CA with offices globally, SingleStore has raised nearly $100M from top investors including GV, Accel Partners and Khosla Ventures, among others. SingleStore is trusted by customers including Uber, Akamai, Dell EMC, Samsung, Comcast, Kellogg, and more.

Consistent with our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we value individuals with the ability to work on diverse teams and with a diverse range of people.

To all recruitment agencies: SingleStore does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to SingleStore employees. SingleStore is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.

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