# Director of Engineering (Data Infrastructure)

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: Bengaluru, India
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

Job Title: Director of Engineering (Data Infrastructure)

Location: Bengaluru, India

We're looking for a seasoned Director of Engineering to lead our data infrastructure organization in Bengaluru. As a founding technical leader in our fastest-growing engineering hub, you will be responsible for building world-class teams and shaping architectural decisions that ripple across the company.

About the Role:

- You will build the data infrastructure organization that makes Databricks' continued growth possible.

- Establish foundational teams in Bengaluru owning the bedrock systems that guarantee billing correctness, operational resilience, and zero-downtime recovery across our entire monetization stack.

- Define what world-class infrastructure looks like for the next decade of data platforms.

Responsibilities:

- Deliver the infrastructure vision for systems processing billions in daily billing transactions with zero tolerance for error.

- Build Bengaluru's data infrastructure organization by establishing it as the destination for India's top infrastructure talent.

- Own business-critical systems operating 24/7/365 across 100+ regions where even 99.9% uptime means hours of customer pain.

- Ship platforms that compound engineering leverage across Databricks.

Requirements:

- 14+ years in distributed systems engineering with 6+ years leading infrastructure organizations and 4+ years managing managers at companies where infrastructure failures meant immediate revenue impact, customer escalations, or regulatory consequences.

- Technical depth across petabyte-scale data pipelines and distributed systems reliability.

- Track record defining multi-year infrastructure vision and translating it into sequential deliverables that show value quarterly.

- Experience building 99.999%+ reliable systems with established practices for SLOs/SLIs, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, and sophisticated observability.

- Proven ability to scale infrastructure organizations in high-growth environments.

- Communication skills to make complex infrastructure decisions legible to executives.

What You'll Need:

- BS in Computer Science or Engineering; MS or Ph.D. preferred.

- Experience with Apache Spark, Delta Lake, large-scale data infrastructure, fintech/billing systems, or leading infrastructure through hypergrowth strongly preferred.

Benefits:

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel.

Compliance:

If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to grant such access.

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems engineering
- infrastructure organizations
- petabyte-scale data pipelines
- distributed systems reliability
- SLOs/SLIs
- chaos engineering
- disaster recovery
- observability

### Nice to have
- Apache Spark
- Delta Lake
- large-scale data infrastructure
- fintech/billing systems