Senior Staff Software Engineer - Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement

Databricks
London, Berlin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 15+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Communication","Problem-solving","Cross-team collaboration"]

Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the runtime enforcement layer for Unity Catalog, ensuring secure, consistent data access across Databricks compute, engines, and clouds. You’ll mentor engineers, drive cross-org initiatives, set roadmaps and SLAs, and shape multi-year deployments. Expect to build automation tools, prevent and investigate production issues, and influence large-scale distributed systems at a globally scaled data platform.

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Databricks
6 months ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement

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Job Summary

Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the runtime enforcement layer for Unity Catalog, ensuring secure, consistent data access across Databricks compute, engines, and clouds. You’ll mentor engineers, drive cross-org initiatives, set roadmaps and SLAs, and shape multi-year deployments. Expect to build automation tools, prevent and investigate production issues, and influence large-scale distributed systems at a globally scaled data platform.
Location: London, 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; mentor others, lead sprint planning, and participate in project planning.

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years 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 systemsLarge-scale systemsCloud
Education:
Skills:LeadershipMentoringCommunicationProblem-solvingCross-team collaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Unity CatalogDistributed systemsCloud

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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