Director of Engineering

Databricks
Bengaluru
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Executive & General ManagementExperience: 15+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Mentoring","Empathy","Team-building"]

Senior engineering leader responsible for guiding distributed cloud services at scale, building and growing high-performance teams, collaborating with product and design, and shaping the long-term technical architecture and platform strategy. You’ll drive milestones, manage debt, mentor leaders, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver an AI-enabled data infrastructure platform used by enterprise customers.

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Databricks
Databricks
1 year ago

Director of Engineering

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Job Summary

Senior engineering leader responsible for guiding distributed cloud services at scale, building and growing high-performance teams, collaborating with product and design, and shaping the long-term technical architecture and platform strategy. You’ll drive milestones, manage debt, mentor leaders, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver an AI-enabled data infrastructure platform used by enterprise customers.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and participate in technical, product, and design discussions to shape the developer platform
  • •Guide the building, management, and operation of highly scalable services in the cloud
  • •Grow leaders on the team by providing coaching, mentorship, and growth opportunities
  • •Partner with other engineering and product leaders on planning, prioritization and staffing
  • •Ensure delivery against milestones while aligning with product leadership and cross-functional teams

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems
  • •Building, growing, and managing high-performance teams
  • •Ability to attract and hire engineers who meet the Databricks hiring principles
  • •Existing experience building and running cloud platforms, or demonstrated ability to quickly learn new concepts in the SaaS space
  • •Experience working cross-functionality with product management and directly with customers; ability to deeply understand product and customer personas
  • •BS in Computer Science or Masters or PhD
Experience:15+ yearsDistributed systemsCloudSaaSData platform
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationMentoringEmpathyTeam-building
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Cloud platformsDistributed systemsAI toolingSaaSMicroservices

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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