Director of Engineering

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Bangalore, India · Executive Engineering - Pipeline

Director of Engineering at Databricks, focusing on enhancing developer productivity and driving innovation in the developer platform space by integrating AI tools into the developer workflow. This role involves leading critical initiatives, managing technical debt, building and operating scalable cloud services, and growing engineering teams. The position requires extensive experience in large-scale distributed systems and cloud platforms, with a strong emphasis on leadership and cross-functional collaboration.

What you'd actually do

  1. Solve real business needs at a large scale by applying your software engineering
  2. Ensure consistent delivery against milestones and strong alignment with the field working "two-in-a-box" with product leadership
  3. Evolve organizational structure to align with long term initiatives, build strong "5 ingredient" teams with good comms architecture
  4. Manage technical debt, including long term technical architecture decisions and balance product roadmap
  5. Leading and participating in technical, product, and design discussions

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • Experience building and running cloud platforms or ability to learn new concepts in SaaS
  • Experience working cross-functionally with product management and customers
  • BS in Computer Science or Masters or PhD

What the JD emphasized

  • 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-functionally with product management and directly with customers; ability to deeply understand product and customer personas.