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Director of Engineering

Databricks· Engineering
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Bengalurufull-timePosted 9mo ago

About the role

Leader responsible for building and scaling Databricks' developer platform and AI-assisted development initiatives, with a focus on developer productivity, cloud services, and cross-functional collaboration across engineering, product, field engineering, recruiting, and HR in Bengaluru, India.

Responsibilities

  • Solve real business needs at a large scale by applying your software engineering
  • Ensure consistent delivery against milestones and strong alignment with the field working "two-in-a-box" with product leadership
  • Evolve organizational structure to align with long term initiatives, build strong "5 ingredient" teams with good comms architecture
  • Manage technical debt, including long term technical architecture decisions and balance product roadmap
  • Leading and participating in technical, product, and design discussions
  • Building, managing, and operating a highly scalable services in the cloud
  • Growing leaders on the team by providing coaching, mentorship, and growth opportunities
  • Partnering with other engineering and product leaders on planning, prioritization and staffing
  • Creating a culture of excellence on the team while leading with empathy

Qualifications

  • 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 (e.g technical background and fast learner)
  • 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

Skills

Required:Large-scale distributed systemsPeople leadership

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and perks (regional details available)
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data Intelligence Platform.

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