Director of Engineering (Data Infrastructure)
Core
Building the data infrastructure organization for Databricks' monetization stack, ensuring zero-downtime recovery, billing correctness, and operational resilience across 100+ regions.
Role type
Director of Engineering (Data Infrastructure)
Builds
Foundational teams in Bengaluru owning bedrock systems for billing correctness, multi-region data ingestion, developer platforms, and deployment automation.
Domain
Data infrastructure, distributed systems, fintech/billing systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems engineering, petabyte-scale data pipelines, infrastructure organization building, multi-year platform roadmap definition, SLO/SLI management, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, sophisticated observability, engineering management, executive communication
Preferred skills
Apache Spark, Delta Lake, large-scale data infrastructure, fintech/billing systems, leading infrastructure through hypergrowth
Technologies
Apache Spark, Delta Lake
Responsibilities
Deliver infrastructure vision for systems processing billions in daily billing transactions with zero tolerance for error; Build Bengaluru's data infrastructure organization by hiring engineering managers and creating a culture for solving hard distributed systems problems; Own business-critical systems operating 24/7/365 driving reliability improvements and eliminating operational toil; Ship platforms that compound engineering leverage including correctness frameworks, deployment automation, and data integration systems; Position infrastructure as product by treating internal engineering teams as customers with SLAs.
Seniority
Director, founding technical leader
