Director of Engineering - Databricks Commercialization & Marketplace

The role

You will lead the engineering organization that owns the commercial engine from start to finish. You will set the product and technology strategy for how Databricks makes money and build the leadership bench to scale the organization.

What you will do

• Set and communicate the multi-year product and technology strategy for the commerce engine.
• Own business outcomes across revenue-critical programs spanning multiple organizations.
• Build reusable building blocks to make commercialization a platform capability.
• Maintain reliability, correctness, SOX and compliance readiness, security, and cost visibility.
• Partner with Business and Finance to turn requirements into engineering design.
• Build and coach a team of engineering managers and tech-lead managers.
• Act as the hiring owner for the Money Bellevue site to source and close senior talent.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering
• 6+ years leading engineering organizations and managing managers
• Track record of delivering large, revenue-critical, cross-functional programs
• Technical depth in distributed systems and large-scale data pipelines
• Fluency in order-to-cash and finance concepts including pricing, contracts, revenue recognition, invoicing, month-end close, and SOX controls
• Strong product judgment
• Clear, confident communication of strategy to executives
• Experience scaling an organization quickly
• BS in Computer Science or a related field

Nice to have

• MS degree
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience with Apache Spark
• Experience with Delta Lake
• Experience with cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Equity

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.