This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
Salary range: Rs 10000000 - Rs 27000000 (ie INR 100 - 270 LPA)
Min Experience: 15+ years
Location: Bengaluru
JobType: full-time
We are looking for an experienced Director of Engineering to lead the development, operation, and evolution of large-scale managed database services within a cloud infrastructure setting. This leadership role is responsible for driving engineering strategy, ensuring service reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence, while building high-performing engineering teams that deliver customer-facing products with speed and quality.
The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in cloud platforms, distributed systems, and relational databases with proven leadership experience managing engineering organizations. You will define technical direction, strengthen operational processes, partner with cross-functional teams, and create a culture of ownership, innovation, and customer-centric execution.
Key Responsibilities
Lead engineering teams responsible for designing, building,



and operating managed database services for cloud-based platforms.
Define and execute engineering strategies focused on scalability, availability, security, durability, and operational excellence.
Drive architecture decisions for database infrastructure, control planes, automation systems, deployment workflows, and operational tooling.
Establish and monitor service reliability objectives, including availability, backup and recovery, replication health, incident response, and performance metrics.
Build highly automated systems for deployment, monitoring, fleet management, scaling, and infrastructure maintenance.
Guide engineering decisions across database replication, failover, storage growth, backup and restore, upgrades, security, and observability.
Lead incident management processes, capacity planning, change management, and operational risk mitigation.
Collaborate closely with Product, Infrastructure, SRE, S

📌 Director of Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 Weekday AI
📍 Bengaluru