Senior Staff Software Engineer - Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement

Databricks
Aarhus, Berlin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 15+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Communication","Problem-solving"]

Senior Staff Software Engineer to tech lead the Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement. You will guide cross-team initiatives to harden runtime enforcement for Unity Catalog across compute types and engines, establish governance and operating models, mentor engineers, and drive multi-year roadmaps focused on secure, scalable data governance for Databricks’ distributed infrastructure.

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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement

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Job Summary

Senior Staff Software Engineer to tech lead the Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement. You will guide cross-team initiatives to harden runtime enforcement for Unity Catalog across compute types and engines, establish governance and operating models, mentor engineers, and drive multi-year roadmaps focused on secure, scalable data governance for Databricks’ distributed infrastructure.
Location: Aarhus, Berlin
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and grow an engineering team delivering 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.
  • •Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
  • •Extensive experience building and maintaining distributed systems.
  • •Security-first mindset.
  • •Cross-org leadership in ambiguous, incident-heavy environments; disciplined rollout and ops maturity.
  • •BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
Experience:15+ yearsDistributed systemsCloudData platform
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipMentoringCommunicationProblem-solving
Languages:English

Company Brief

Databricks
Provides a unified data analytics platform powered by Apache Spark to simplify building, deploying, and scaling data engineering, data science, and machine learning workloads for enterprises.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2013
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