We are seeking a Senior Director of Distributed Database Systems Engineering to lead next-generation data architecture innovation within an R&D / incubation-style team
Job Summary
We are seeking a Senior Director of Distributed Database Systems Engineering to lead next-generation data architecture innovation within an R&D / incubation-style team.
This role is designed for a deeply experienced technical leader who can set architectural direction, drive hands-on prototyping, and influence platform strategy across a complex services ecosystem.
The emphasis is on technical innovation and architectural leadership, not long-term operational ownership of an established production platform.
Matching Summary
We are seeking a Senior Director of Distributed Database Systems Engineering to lead next-generation data architecture innovation within an R&D / incubation-style team.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Distributed database architecture
Data strategy innovation
High-scale, high-availability systems
Novel approaches to partitioning, replication, consistency
Storage, indexing, query optimization strategies
Multi-service, multi-tenant ecosystems
Nice-to-have
AI-assisted, agentic workloads
Large-scale SaaS multi-tenant data
Benchmarking and performance experiments
Technical innovation and architectural leadership
Key Requirements
20+ years of experience
Deep expertise in distributed systems theory
Extensive experience with sharding, replication, high availability
Strong command of indexing, transactional semantics
Proficiency in systems-level or backend programming languages