Senior Staff Software Engineer – Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement

Responsibilities

• ▹Lead and grow an engineering team delivering runtime enforcement outcomes in a high-severity, cross-org domain
• ▹Establish scope, SLAs and phased roadmaps
• ▹Establish single-source-of-truth scope, operating model and durable mechanisms for enforcement
• ▹Lead multi-year, multi-team initiatives that shape how Databricks enforces Unity Catalog at runtime across compute types and engines
• ▹Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services
• ▹Use deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues
• ▹Plan and lead complicated technical projects across several teams
• ▹Contribute as a technical team lead by mentoring others, leading sprint planning, delegating work and participating in project planning

Requirements

• ▹15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems
• ▹Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
• ▹Extensive experience building and maintaining distributed systems
• ▹Security-first mindset
• ▹Cross-org leadership in ambiguous, incident-heavy environments; disciplined rollout and ops maturity
• ▹Motivated by delivering customer value and impact
• ▹Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction

Soft skills

About the company

Databricks builds the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform for data teams, enabling customers to use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers and customer-obsessed, its platform runs across millions of virtual machines processing exabytes of data per day.