Senior Staff Software Engineer Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement

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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.

Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real important needs in the world. We develop and operate one of the largest scale software platforms. The fleet consists of millions of virtual machines generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day. At our scale we regularly observe cloud hardware network and operating system faults and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above.

Unity Catalog is our platform native unified and open governance for data and AI. It eliminate silos simplify governance and accelerate insights at scale. We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to come tech lead Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement. We build and harden the runtime enforcement layer for Unity Catalog ensuring secure consistent authorization and data access across Databricks compute engines and clouds. This reduces incidents and simplifies customer choices by unifying enforcement semantics.

The impact you will have:

• Lead and grow and engineering teamdelivering runtime enforcement outcomes in a high-severity cross-org domain; establish scope SLAs and phased roadmaps.
• Establish single-source-of-truth scope operating model and durable mechanisms for enforcement.
• Lead multi-year multi-team initiatives that shape how Databricks enforces Unity Catalog at runtime across compute types and engines.
• Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services.
• Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.
• Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
• Contribute as a technical team lead by mentoring others lead sprint planning delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.

What we look for:

• 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.

Required Experience:

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