Staff Production Engineer (Public Sector)

Location: Virginia. Candidates must be eligible for a Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance. Nice to have: current polygraph.

Salary: $162,000 — $222,750 USD

Company

Databricks is the data and AI company building the Data Intelligence Platform relied on by over 10,000 organizations worldwide, including 50% of the Fortune 500.

What you will do

• Design, automate, and operate IAM, account/subscription, and project lifecycle across AWS, Azure, and GCP, enforcing least-privilege access at scale.
• Build and maintain reliable, observable automation and tooling for safe, repeatable cloud changes.
• Own security and audit logging data pipelines from cloud providers into internal systems.
• Operate specialized, highly regulated environments like FedRAMP/GovCloud, including release management and patching.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation for incidents impacting cloud accounts, IAM, or security pipelines.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, Audit, product engineering, and field teams on incidents and policy updates.

Requirements

• Eligible for Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance; current polygraph highly desired.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent; 8+ years operating and automating large-scale cloud environments.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP in IAM, networking, accounts, and audit logging.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD).
• Experience in security-sensitive or regulated environments (SOC2, FedRAMP, ISO 27001).
• Success running high-availability services with on-call and incident management.

Nice to have

• Experience with Okta, Opal, or similar identity/access tooling.
• Background operating secure admin workstations (SAW).
• Experience migrating cloud accounts during M&A or reorganizations.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits tailored to region, including health insurance, performance bonus, and equity.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity.
• Cloud maximalist culture focused on solving technical challenges at global scale.