Databricks · 6 hours ago
Director, Engineering Governance- Bellevue, WA
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$243K/yr - $290K/yr
10+ years expDatabricks is the Lakehouse company, helping data teams solve the world’s toughest problems. They are seeking a Director of Engineering, Governance Foundation to define and implement security, privacy, and responsible data practices across their products and infrastructure, ensuring secure and compliant product development in a multi-cloud ecosystem.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Define the company-wide strategy for embedding security, privacy, and responsible data use across engineering workflows and platform components
Build scalable governance frameworks that help engineering teams design secure systems from the start, not after the fact
Establish and lead a Security & Privacy Postmortem Review process that drives learning, accountability, and long-term resilience
Ensure insights from incidents translate into systemic improvements across tools, infrastructure, and engineering culture
Rebuild and scale a Security Champions Network that brings security and governance expertise directly into product and infrastructure teams
Create centralized enablement, tooling, and shared learning systems that allow thousands of engineers to integrate security seamlessly
Lead efforts to ensure responsible data use across AI/ML systems, SaaS environments, and internal workspaces
Define and enforce policies that uphold privacy, integrity, auditability, and proper data lifecycle management
Transform security into a key enabler for engineering velocity
Deliver automation, self-service tools, and intelligent guardrails that reduce developer friction while increasing safety and compliance
Build JIT (Just-In-Time) security education and systems that proactively surface risky behavior before it becomes an incident
Identify and elevate Databricks’ security posture to exceed DB50 customer expectations, including areas such as audit logging, controlled access workflows, secure asset import/export, behavior monitoring and lineage
Partner with security, IT, and compliance teams to ensure readiness for the most demanding enterprise and regulated environments
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in large-scale software engineering, with at least several years leading engineering managers and senior ICs
Strong technical grounding in backend systems, distributed systems, identity/security, or enterprise cloud platforms
Experience defining governance, security, or enterprise-grade platform capabilities
A background as a senior IC (e.g., Staff/Principal Engineer) at some point—this role requires deep technical credibility
Proven success hiring, developing, and retaining senior engineering talent
Expertise driving cross-functional technical programs with senior stakeholders
Preferred
Experience building cloud-agnostic or multi-cloud services
Background in enterprise features such as access control, policy engines, compliance, or identity systems
Experience leading organizations through scaling phases in high-growth environments
Benefits
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Company
Databricks
Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$25.81BKey Investors
Counterpoint GlobalFranklin TempletonAndreessen Horowitz
2025-12-16Series Unknown· $4B
2025-09-08Series Unknown· $1B
2025-01-13Debt Financing· $5.25B
Leadership Team
Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-founder
David Conte
Chief Financial Officer
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