VP - Database Engineering

TL;DR

VP - Database Engineering: Leading the vision, strategy, and execution for hirify.global’s cloud-native database platform, supporting core traffic and expanding across public clouds. Focus on defining the long-term vision, driving architectural decisions for a globally distributed, multi-tenant database system, and ensuring operational excellence at extreme scale.

Location: Must be based in the US (San Francisco, California or Seattle, Washington)

Company

hirify.global builds and operates a cloud-native database platform that supports all core hirify.global traffic, forming the foundation of customer trust, availability, and scale across its ecosystem.

What you will do

• Define and own the long-term technical and organizational vision for hirify.global’s cloud-native database platform.
• Lead the design, development, and evolution of a globally distributed, multi-tenant database system.
• Drive architectural decisions across storage, replication, consistency models, failover, disaster recovery, and data durability.
• Own SLAs for availability, latency, and durability, and lead database-related incident management.
• Hire, build, and scale a world-class, geographically distributed engineering organization.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive leadership and stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 20+ years of overall engineering experience, with 10+ years leading large, multi-level engineering organizations.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, databases, or large-scale storage platforms.
• Proven experience owning and operating cloud-based, mission-critical services at B2C scale.
• Strong background in service ownership, operational excellence, and 24×7 production systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage both executives and deeply technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience building or operating cloud-native, multi-tenant database platforms.
• Working knowledge of public cloud technologies (GCP, AWS, Azure) and large enterprise cloud migrations.
• Experience partnering with public cloud platform teams and enabling large-scale platform transitions.
• Strong grounding in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming.
• Agile mindset with experience operating in Scrum/Agile environments.