Director of Engineering

<p>(P-1384)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>About the Team</strong></p> <p>At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer-obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.</p> <p>In this role, you will work closely with leaders across the company, within engineering, as well as with product management, field engineering, recruiting and HR. You will lead critical initiatives that enhance developer productivity and drive innovation in the developer platform space. You will be at the forefront of integrating AI tools into the developer workflow, shaping the future of AI-assisted development.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>The impact you will have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Solve real business needs at a large scale by applying your software engineering</li> <li>Ensure consistent delivery against milestones and strong alignment with the field working "two-in-a-box" with product leadership</li> <li>Evolve organizational structure to align with long term initiatives, build strong "5 ingredient" teams with good comms architecture</li> <li>Manage technical debt, including long term technical architecture decisions and balance product roadmap</li> <li>Leading and participating in technical, product, and design discussions&nbsp;</li> <li>Building, managing, and operating a highly scalable services in the cloud</li> <li>Growing leaders on the team by providing coaching, mentorship, and growth opportunities</li> <li>Partnering with other engineeri