Role Overview
As a Director of Engineering at Databricks, you will be at the forefront of solving complex technical challenges in the realm of data and AI infrastructure. This role involves working closely with leaders across the company, including engineering, product management, field engineering, recruiting, and HR. You will be pivotal in ensuring sustained hiring of high-quality talent, organizational design, and alignment with peer/partner teams within and outside engineering, and robust processes for efficient execution against product strategy.
Responsibilities
- Solve real business needs at a large scale by applying your software engineering skills.
- 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.
- Lead and participate in technical, product, and design discussions.
- Build, manage, and operate highly scalable services in the cloud.
- Grow leaders on the team by providing coaching, mentorship, and growth opportunities.
- Partner with other engineering and product leaders on planning, prioritization, and staffing.
- Create a culture of excellence on the team while leading with empathy.
Qualifications
- Experience building and leading teams in a complex technical domain, such as on distributed data systems or database internals.
- 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.
- Experience working cross-functionality with product management and directly with customers; ability to deeply understand product and customer personas.
- Knowledge of database internals (highly preferred).
- BS in Computer Science (Masters or PhD preferred).
- 15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics, and AI. Founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, and MLflow, Databricks is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision
- 401(k) Plan
- Equity awards
- Flexible time off
- Paid parental leave
- Family Planning
- Gym reimbursement
- Annual personal development fund
- Work headphones reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Business travel accident insurance
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