Job Description

Director - Engineering

Background & Opportunity:

Whether you are an eCommerce giant, a Silicon Valley start-up, or a simple offline retailer, you are consuming and storing more data than ever before in order to run your business. This isn't new news. We know that data, and how we manage and protect that data, represent an enormous market opportunity. What is amazing is how much of that market opportunity still exists today, despite the many years tech has been talking about "big data."

While the majority of the technology stack has already gone cloud-native, the data management industry is still behind. It's true that we now have a more modern approach to data management but is it really "next-gen" if we are simply using newer on-premises hardware and calling them "modern"? Why can't everything start in a cloud-native environment that enables a clear consumption-based model and decreases costs over time?

It's a very difficult thing to do, but an enormous opportunity for an industry that still desperately needs innovation.

About Druva

Druva is transforming the $30B data protection and management market with a highly differentiated SaaS-based platform. Historically, the market has had two biases - a singular focus on the data canter and complete reliance on a hardware-based approach to solving data protection and retention needs.

Druva strongly believes that a SaaS-based approach brings the simplicity, scale, and cost savings that the market has been looking for. Further, it has the potential to unlock the value of data restricted by legacy on-premises-based architectures.

Druva's SaaS-based platform provides a smooth and easy-to-use experience, eliminating the complexity inherent in a hardware-centric infrastructure. This enables customers to focus on the full value of data management via discovery, security, compliance, and analytics all in one place.

Druva is on a mission to make data management less painful - nobody has to look at the blinking lights of data storage servers anymore. Along its journey, Druva has built one of the most innovative, visible, and
fastest-growing companies in technology, and they are just getting started.

Company Highlights

• Very well-funded, with over $475M raised including a recent Series H of $147M in April of 2021 and a new valuation of over $2B. The company is gearing up for an IPO in the immediate future.
• Explosive growth trajectory with expected revenue approaching $200M ARR by EOY 2021. Over 4000+ customers and over 20% of the Fortune 500 use Druva today.
• Customers include Intuit, VMware, NASA, McAfee, Square, Pfizer, Zoom, and much more.
• Market-leadingng partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Dell.
• Global marketing team of 40+ people with a proven executive team. Headquartered in Sunnyvale; the total headcount is 900+ and still growing fast.
• Numerous awards across the industry, including "2021 Data Management Company of the Year".
• Proven cloud-native architecture & SaaS business model without any legacy. Druva's next-gen data management platform is one of a kind.

Purpose of the Job

Director - Engineering will collaborate with Product Management, existing engineering teams, and other stakeholders to help design, develop, deploy and maintain a highly available, fault-tolerant, SaaS offering. This position has the opportunity to make a significant and direct impact on our products and solve some of the most complex challenges. This position will be involved in roadmap planning, design, and development of scalable software.

Primary Responsibilities

• Service ownership (design, delivery, and production support) of the SaaS offering that protects virtualization and cloud-native workloads hosted in the cloud.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders, product management, and strategic partners to define and deliver on the technical strategy and product vision.
• Collaborate with escalations, customer support, sales, and sales engineering to enable the best customer outcomes - both existing and new acquisitions.
• Active mentoring of engineers to enable the best practices and principles of high-quality SaaS development. Drive the focus on end-to-end service ownership (discovery, delivery and post-production support)
• Continuously assess newer and emerging technologies/customer use cases. Play the role of a player/coach with the engineering team to take an idea from proving the concept, prototyping, and piloting the feature to finally delivering a generally available solution.
• Defines practical architectural, design, and coding guidelines as engineering best practices. Focuses on all aspects of engineering - development, quality, performance, and security.
• Building a data-driven culture that focuses on measuring and improving on key metrics defined by the team with a focus on operational excellence through continuous improvement. The metrics should focus on all aspects of the team including, but not limited to the health of the service in production, insights into customer usage, quality, engineering productivity, and delivery

processes. * Presents at technical conferences, and campuses to market Druva's technical edge and excellence.

• Builds out a strong intellectual property portfolio in the area of expertise.

Desired Skills

• 15+ years of experience in building enterprise-class software in the storage/virtualization/infrastructure domain
• Understanding of deployment issues in a complex environment (security, networking, load balancers, service dependencies, disaster recovery, etc.)
• Security and compliance consciousness
• Excellent oral, written communication and executive presence
• A high degree of "ownership" - the ability to determine what needs to be done and make it happen
• Passion for collaborative development and support of quality hosted software services
• Strong technical leader with excellent communication skills who can collaborate with cross-functional

technical teams to meet the solution architecture needs of the product.

Location : Pune