Databricks · 6 hours ago
Principal Engineer, Compute Fleet Management
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$264K/yr - $322K/yrDatabricks is a leading data and AI company focused on enabling data teams to tackle complex problems. The Principal Engineer for Compute Fleet Management will optimize cloud compute resources and ensure the reliability and efficiency of the infrastructure that supports Databricks' products.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Pioneering Fleet Optimization: Provisioning and pooling of O(Billion)s of cloud resources to achieve peak workload performance, industry-leading efficiency, and robust resource isolation
Delivering Hyper-Scale Resilience: Build the architecture that guarantees horizontal scaling and resilience against zonal or even cloud account-level failures, ensuring Databricks is always on
Owning the Critical Path: Lead the development of the lowest-dependency systems required to bootstrap and manage our massive compute platform
High Availability: Achieve and maintain 99.99% availability for all batch and serving workloads
Stellar Efficiency: Drive utilization to 60% or higher—a crucial metric that requires balancing high efficiency with unwavering tolerance for cloud failures
Best-in-Class Isolation: Architect and enforce strong security and performance isolation across a diverse range of customer workloads
Leading Transformative Projects: Taking ownership of complex, cross-team, cross-layer, and multi-quarter strategic engineering initiatives from concept to execution
Distributed Systems Mastery: Deep, hands-on experience developing and operating high-scale distributed systems on at least one major public cloud
Influence Without Authority: Proven ability to drive consensus, establish technical direction, and lead large technical efforts across organizational boundaries
Execution Discipline: Exceptional strength in planning, tracking project progress, and managing complex cross-organizational dependencies
Qualification
Required
Leading Transformative Projects: Taking ownership of complex, cross-team, cross-layer, and multi-quarter strategic engineering initiatives from concept to execution
Distributed Systems Mastery: Deep, hands-on experience developing and operating high-scale distributed systems on at least one major public cloud
Influence Without Authority: Proven ability to drive consensus, establish technical direction, and lead large technical efforts across organizational boundaries
Execution Discipline: Exceptional strength in planning, tracking project progress, and managing complex cross-organizational dependencies
Preferred
Experience managing and scaling a massive fleet of GPUs for AI/ML workloads
Experience with developing and operating large-scale distributed systems across all major clouds (AWS, Azure, and GCP)
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.
Founded in 2013
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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