Director of Engineering (Data Infrastructure)

TL;DR

Director of Engineering (Data Infrastructure): Building and leading the data infrastructure organization to support Databricks' growth with an accent on reliability, disaster recovery, and operational resilience. Focus on architecting systems that ensure zero-downtime recovery and correctness in billing processes.

Location: Onsite in Bengaluru, India

Company

Databricks is the data and AI company, providing a platform that unifies and democratizes data, analytics, and AI for over 10,000 organizations worldwide.

What you will do

• Deliver the infrastructure vision for systems processing billions in daily billing transactions with zero tolerance for error.
• Build Bengaluru's data infrastructure organization by establishing it as the destination for India's top infrastructure talent.
• Own business-critical systems operating 24/7/365 across 100+ regions, driving reliability improvements.
• Ship platforms that compound engineering leverage across Databricks.
• Position infrastructure as product by treating internal engineering teams as customers.

Requirements

• 14+ years in distributed systems engineering with 6+ years leading infrastructure organizations.
• Technical depth across petabyte-scale data pipelines and distributed systems reliability.
• Experience building 99.999%+ reliable systems with established practices for SLOs/SLIs.
• Proven ability to scale infrastructure organizations in high-growth environments.
• BS in Computer Science or Engineering; MS or Ph.D. preferred.