# Director of Engineering (Lakeflow)

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

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/databricks/jobs/8139277002
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e381129a-437

## Description

We are looking for a senior leader to run our Connect organization in India. As the Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for solving real business needs at a large scale by applying your software engineering skills. You will ensure consistent delivery against milestones and strong alignment with the field working "two-in-a-box" with product leadership.

Key responsibilities include:

- Evolving organizational 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, prioritization, and staffing

Requirements include:

- 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

- Experience working cross-functionality with product management and directly with customers; ability to deeply understand product and customer personas

This is a great opportunity to lead a key strategic initiative for Databricks.

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- large-scale distributed systems
- team management
- cloud platforms
- SaaS space