Senior Staff Software Engineer - Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement

Databricks
Berlin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 15+ yearsSkills: ["Distributed systems","Security","Leadership"]

Lead and shape the runtime enforcement for Unity Catalog, steering a high-scale distributed system in a cross-org environment. You will mentor engineers, define roadmaps, and drive multi-team initiatives across compute types and engines, ensuring secure, scalable data access and governance.

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Databricks
6 months ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement

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Job Summary

Lead and shape the runtime enforcement for Unity Catalog, steering a high-scale distributed system in a cross-org environment. You will mentor engineers, define roadmaps, and drive multi-team initiatives across compute types and engines, ensuring secure, scalable data access and governance.
Location: 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 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+ years
Skills:Distributed systemsSecurityLeadership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Distributed systemsSecurityRuntime enforcementGovernance

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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