Director of Engineering (Service Foundations)

Bengaluru - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

(P-1384)

About the Team

At Databricks we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the worlds toughest problems from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the worlds best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers and customer-obsessed we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And were only getting started.

In this role you will work closely with leaders across the company within engineering as well as with product management field engineering recruiting and HR. You will lead critical infrastructure initiatives that build and operate distributed systems driving company-wide efficiency reliability and automation. Youll shape how the next generation of systems is builtintegrating AI-driven tooling directly into the infrastructure itself to make it more adaptive scalable and intelligent.

The impact you will have:

- Solve real business needs at a large scale by applying your software engineering
- Ensure consistent delivery against milestones and strong alignment with the field working two-in-a-box with product leadership
- Evolve organizational structure to align with long term initiatives build strong 5 ingredient teams with good comms architecture
- Manage technical debt including long term technical architecture decisions and balance product roadmap
- Leading and participating in technical product and design discussions
- Building managing and operating a highly scalable services 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
- Creating a culture of excellence on the team while leading with empathy

What we look for:

- 20 years of industry experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- 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
- Ability to translate requirements from internal engineering teams into clear priorities and execution plans
- Fluent across the infrastructure stack storage orchestration observability and developer platforms with intuition for how these layers interact..
- Ability to evaluate and evolve abstractions knows when to unify when to localize and how to reduce cognitive load for product teams.
- BS in Computer Science (Masters or PhD Preferred)

Required Experience:

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(P-1384)About the TeamAt Databricks we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the worlds toughest problems from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the worlds best data and AI infras...