Databricks · 1 day ago
Head of Corporate Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$248K/yr - $348K/yr
10+ years expDatabricks is the data and AI company, and they are seeking a Head of Corporate Engineering to oversee enterprise engineering and operations globally. The role involves building and managing a technical team, optimizing cloud infrastructure, and ensuring enterprise security compliance while collaborating with R&D teams.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Securing the Enterprise: Working closely with Enterprise Security organization to harden and secure our cloud environments, secret management, collaboration tools, endpoints, SaaS environments, IAM tools, and more. Success measured in continuous improvement of our enterprise security hardening standards
Building and Scaling our Cloud Infrastructure: Your team will be responsible for establishing and implementing enterprise cloud infrastructure including establishing Infrastructure Provisioning, SRE services, 24/7 on-call support, Infra as Code, observability, and more. In addition, you will be responsible for managing cloud budgets, vendor management, and establishing cost optimization initiatives. Success is measured in increased developer velocity while securing & scaling the cloud infrastructure
Engineering Tooling: Partner closely with R&D teams to establish policies, configurations, run-books, SLAs, hardening, scalability and availability of engineering tools like Github, Jira, Atlassian, and more
Endpoint Engineering: Enable extreme automation for endpoint management with zero-touch deployment, observability (synthetic and real-time), provisioning/de-provisioning, and establishing standards / SLAs. Enforce security policies, configure & manage security settings and ensure compliance across all endpoints and mobile devices. Success is measured in terms of end-user satisfaction and % of manual touch
Collaboration Management: Ensure we provide world class tools to our employees to be extremely productive and collaborative. This would include but not be limited to managing and scaling internal workplace products like Gmail, Slack, Atlassian, Moveworks, Glean, and more. Success is measured by user satisfaction
Identity & Access Management: Manage the IAM team from IAM implementation, access standards enforcement, SLA management, and compliance to various standards like FedRamp, IL5, PCI, and more. Included are both internal and external identity providers to be managed. Success is measured by compliance, Identity governance, and availability
Qualification
Required
10 years of experience managing Cloud infrastructure at large enterprises
Extensive experience managing public cloud implementations in AWS
In-depth understanding of Cloud native technologies to lead and guide the team
Must have hands-on experience in troubleshooting and debugging issues in production environments
Working experience in managing DevOps/SRE practices OKRs (Objective and Key Results), Agile development, Infra-as-code, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), DevOps measurement such as DORA KPIs
In-depth understanding of each collaboration tool's features, functionalities, and configurations (e.g., Gmail for email, Slack for messaging)
Ability to identify and integrate and optimize the use of various tools for seamless collaboration (e.g., connecting Jira with GitHub for Dev metrics)
Experience leading a team of senior professionals working asynchronously in a remote, distributed team
Provide mentorship and guidance to team members to ensure that their skills and knowledge are kept up-to-date
Preferred
Experience with GCP and Azure will be a plus
Strong communication skills, with clear verbal communication and written communication skills
Collaborative style: partners well with cross-functional teams to solve hard problems and to complete complex deliverables with quality and business outcomes
Benefits
Eligibility for 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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