Director of Engineering (Data Infrastructure)
Core
Build the data infrastructure organization for Databricks' monetization stack, ensuring zero-downtime recovery, billing correctness, and petabyte-scale reliability across 100+ regions.
Role type
Director of Engineering (Data Infrastructure)
Builds
Disaster recovery systems, testing frameworks, correctness guarantees, deployment automation, and developer platforms for global data ingestion.
Domain
Cloud data infrastructure, distributed systems, fintech/billing systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems engineering, infrastructure organization building, multi-year platform roadmap definition, SLO/SLI management, chaos engineering, observability, engineering management, stakeholder communication
Preferred skills
Apache Spark, Delta Lake, large-scale data infrastructure, fintech/billing systems, hypergrowth scaling
Technologies
Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Kafka
Responsibilities
Architect disaster recovery and correctness systems for billions in daily billing transactions; establish Bengaluru's data infrastructure team and hire engineering managers; drive reliability improvements for 24/7/365 systems; ship platforms for data integration and deployment automation; position infrastructure as a product with internal SLAs.
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership & organization building