Senior Staff Software Engineer - Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement

We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement team. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for developing and hardening the runtime enforcement layer for Unity Catalog, ensuring secure and consistent authorization and data access across Databricks compute, engines, and clouds.

This role requires a strong technical background in building and supporting large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on security and cross-org leadership. You will work closely with multiple teams to shape how Databricks enforces Unity Catalog at runtime across compute types and engines.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and growing an engineering team delivering runtime enforcement outcomes in a high-severity, cross-org domain
• Establishing single-source-of-truth scope, operating model, and durable mechanisms for enforcement
• Introducing tools to allow greater automation and operability of services
• Using your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues
• Planning and leading complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company

Requirements:

• 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
• Extensive experience building and maintaining distributed systems
• Security first mindset
• Cross-org leadership in ambiguous, incident-heavy environments; disciplined rollout and ops maturity
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact
• Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience