Senior Director of Engineering, Managed MySQL
Hybrid · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job Summary
Senior Director of Engineering for DigitalOcean's Managed MySQL. Own end-to-end engineering for Standard and Advanced editions, driving tier-0 reliability, high availability architecture, automated failover, and scalable deployments. Define AI-native strategy and strategic architecture, lead cross-functional teams (Product, GTM, SRE), and build a high-performing organization focused on reliability, performance, and operational excellence for mission-critical database services. Location is Bengaluru, India with HYBRID work arrangement.
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years engineering experience in cloud/data/distributed systems
- 6+ years managing managers
- proven success operating high-availability, production-scale services
- deep expertise in distributed systems, consistency, and database management
- strong executive communication and customer judgment
- preferred experience with MySQL or similar ecosystems (RDS, Aurora, Vitess)
- experience building HA architectures, scaling databases (sharding, read scaling)
- familiarity with AI-native data patterns (agent state, event-driven architecture)
Desired Qualifications
- 15+ years of engineering experience in cloud/data/distributed systems
- 6+ years managing managers
- proven success operating high-availability, production-scale services
- deep expertise in distributed systems, consistency, and database management
- strong executive communication and customer judgment
- experience with MySQL or similar ecosystems (RDS, Aurora, Vitess)
- experience building HA architectures, scaling databases (sharding, read scaling)
- familiarity with AI-native data patterns (agent state, event-driven architecture)
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