Description
As a Director of Engineering (Service Foundations) at Databricks, you will lead critical infrastructure initiatives that build and operate distributed systems, driving company-wide efficiency, reliability, and automation. You will work closely with leaders across the company, within engineering, as well as with product management, field engineering, recruiting, and HR.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Solving real business needs at a large scale by applying your software engineering skills
- Ensuring consistent delivery against milestones and strong alignment with the field working "two-in-a-box" with product leadership
- Evolving organisational structure to align with long-term initiatives, building strong "5 ingredient" teams with good comms architecture
- Managing technical debt, including long-term technical architecture decisions and balancing product roadmap
- Leading and participating in technical, product, and design discussions
- Building, managing, and operating a highly scalable service in the cloud
- Growing leaders on the team by providing coaching, mentorship, and growth opportunities
- Partnering with other engineering and product leaders on planning, prioritisation, and staffing
- Creating a culture of excellence on the team while leading with empathy
We are looking for someone with 20+ years of industry experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems. You should have proven ability to build, grow, and manage high-performing infrastructure teams, including developing managers and tech leads. Deep experience running large-scale cloud infrastructure systems (AWS, Azure, or GCP), ideally across multiple clouds or regions, is also required.