Director of Engineering
Databricks
Bengaluru, IndiaPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- 15+ years of industry experience required
- BS in Computer Science or higher degree required
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Lead AI-assisted development initiatives
Role overview
At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform. In this role, you will work closely with leaders across the company, within engineering, as well as with product management, field engineering, recruiting, and HR. You will lead critical initiatives that enhance developer productivity and drive innovation in the developer platform space, including integrating AI tools into the developer workflow and shaping the future of AI-assisted development.
Responsibilities
- Solve real business needs at a large scale by applying your software engineering
- Ensure consistent delivery against milestones and strong alignment with the field working 'two-in-a-box' with product leadership
- Evolve organizational structure to align with long term initiatives, build strong '5 ingredient' teams with good comms architecture
- Manage technical debt, including long term technical architecture decisions and balance product roadmap
- Leading and participating in technical, product, and design discussions
- Building, managing, and operating a highly scalable services in the cloud
- Growing leaders on the team by providing coaching, mentorship, and growth opportunities
- Partnering with other engineering and product leaders on planning, prioritization and staffing
- Creating a culture of excellence on the team while leading with empathy
Requirements
- 15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems
- Building, growing, and managing high-performance teams
- Ability to attract and hire engineers who meet the Databricks hiring principles
- Existing experience building and running cloud platforms -or- demonstrated ability to quickly learn new concepts in the SaaS space (e.g technical background and fast learner)
- Experience working cross-functionality with product management and directly with customers; ability to deeply understand product and customer personas
- BS in Computer Science or Masters or PhD
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees (region-specific details available via provided link)
Additional details
- About the Team: Databricks is founded by engineers and customer-obsessed, tackling technical challenges from next-gen UI/UX to scaling services across millions of virtual machines.
- About Databricks: The Data and AI company with 20,000+ organizations worldwide relying on its platform. Offers a unified platform including Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ global offices.
- Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: Databricks fosters a diverse and inclusive culture, ensuring hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
- Compliance: If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required, Employer may apply for a U.S. government license at its discretion and may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.