Director of Engineering

The role

You will lead critical initiatives to enhance developer productivity and drive innovation in the developer platform space. You will work with leaders across engineering, product management, field engineering, recruiting, and HR to integrate AI tools into the developer workflow.

What you will do

• Solve real business needs at a large scale by applying software engineering
• Ensure consistent delivery against milestones and alignment with the field
• Evolve organizational structure to align with long term initiatives
• Manage technical debt and long term technical architecture decisions
• Lead and participate in technical, product, and design discussions
• Build, manage, and operate highly scalable services in the cloud
• Grow leaders on the team through coaching and mentorship
• Partner with engineering and product leaders on planning, prioritization and staffing
• Create a culture of excellence while leading with empathy

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience 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-functionally with product management and directly with customers
• Ability to deeply understand product and customer personas
• BS in Computer Science or Masters or PhD

About the company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.