Full-Time

Head of Corporate Engineering

Databricks

Databricks

10,001+ employees

Data lakehouse platform for analytics

Compensation Overview

$265k - $364.3k/yr

+ Annual performance bonus + Equity

San Francisco, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Engineering Management (1)
Required Skills
FedRAMP
Microsoft Azure
Agile
Atlassian
Git
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
AWS
JIRA
Observability
Confluence
DevOps
Google Cloud Platform

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Requirements
  • At least 10 years of experience managing cloud infrastructure at large enterprises.
  • Extensive experience managing public cloud implementations in Amazon Web Services.
  • In-depth understanding of cloud-native technologies, with hands-on experience troubleshooting and debugging issues in production environments.
  • Experience managing DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering practices, Objectives and Key Results, Agile development, infrastructure as code, Site Reliability Engineering, and DevOps measurement such as DORA KPIs.
  • In-depth understanding of collaboration-tool features, functionalities, and configurations, with the ability to integrate and optimize tools for seamless collaboration.
  • Experience leading a team of senior professionals working asynchronously in a remote, distributed team.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to partner with cross-functional teams to solve complex problems and deliver quality business outcomes.
  • Ability to mentor and guide team members and keep their skills and knowledge current.
Responsibilities
  • Lead enterprise engineering and operations globally.
  • Build and manage a highly technical enterprise engineering team.
  • Develop first-principles-based strategies and enable strong enterprise security.
  • Harden and secure cloud environments, secret management, collaboration tools, endpoints, software-as-a-service environments, and identity and access management tools in partnership with Enterprise Security.
  • Establish and implement enterprise cloud infrastructure, including infrastructure provisioning, Site Reliability Engineering services, 24/7 on-call support, infrastructure as code, and observability.
  • Manage cloud budgets and vendors and establish cost-optimization initiatives.
  • Partner with research and development teams to establish policies, configurations, runbooks, service-level agreements, hardening, scalability, and availability for engineering tools such as GitHub, Jira, and Atlassian.
  • Automate endpoint management through zero-touch deployment, observability, provisioning and deprovisioning, and standards and service-level agreements.
  • Enforce endpoint security policies, configure and manage security settings, and ensure compliance across endpoints and mobile devices.
  • Manage workplace collaboration products, including Gmail, Slack, Atlassian, Moveworks, and Glean.
  • Manage the identity and access management team, including implementation, access-standard enforcement, service-level agreement management, and compliance with FedRAMP, Impact Level 5, and Payment Card Industry standards.
  • Manage internal and external identity providers.
  • Develop and implement automation tools and frameworks and identify automation opportunities to reduce manual work and improve accuracy.
  • Establish mature incident and change-management processes for Tier 3 information-technology services.
  • Develop efficient processes for system integrations related to mergers and acquisitions.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

Databricks provides a unified data and AI platform built around a lakehouse architecture that blends data lakes and data warehouses. It helps organizations ingest, store, manage, and analyze data from various sources, then apply analytics and machine learning at scale. The platform offers automated ETL, secure data sharing, and high-performance analytics, with built-in support for AI workloads and model deployment. Unlike traditional single-purpose data stores, Databricks combines data engineering, data science, and business analytics in one system, aiming to streamline data workflows and make insights readily actionable. Its goal is to enable businesses to manage data more efficiently, accelerate insight generation, and deploy AI and analytics across diverse teams through a subscription-based platform and professional services.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$32.1B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2013

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Databricks announced $5 billion funding on August 13, 2026, at a $190 billion valuation.
  • February 9, 2026 revenue run-rate hit $5.4 billion, growing over 65% year-over-year.
  • Electric joined Databricks on August 11, 2026, strengthening Lakebase for AI agents.

What critics are saying

  • Judge Breyer let authors' copyright class action proceed on April 29, 2026.
  • Poulin Holdings sued Databricks in Texas on March 11, 2026, over patents.
  • Snowflake and Alphabet compete directly; Databricks' $190 billion valuation demands flawless IPO execution.

What makes Databricks unique

  • Databricks owns the lakehouse stack, from Spark analytics to Lakebase PostgreSQL.
  • Unity Catalog and open formats anchor governance across clouds, data, and AI workloads.
  • Electric and Neon deepen agentic database capabilities beyond Snowflake's core warehouse focus.

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Benefits

Extended health care including dental and vision

Life/AD&D and disability coverage

Equity awards

Flexible Vacation

Gym reimbursement

Annual personal development fund

Work headphones reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Business travel accident insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

0%
Databricks
Aug 13th, 2026
Databricks Grows >80% YoY, Surpasses $7B Revenue Run-Rate, Scales Lakebase, Genie, and Unity AI Gateway - Databricks

Closes $5 billion strategic funding at a $190 billion valuation, led by Coatue, along with Blackstone, MGX, T.

TechDay
Aug 12th, 2026
Databricks buys Electric to power AI agent sandboxes

The deal gives developers a way to keep AI agents working locally in sync with central data, cutting latency in sandboxed apps.

Electric
Aug 11th, 2026
Electric is joining Databricks | Electric

Electric is now part of Databricks. We're joining Neon to make Lakebase the best platform for building apps and agents. Everything we've open sourced stays open source.

Tech in Asia
Jul 28th, 2026
Databricks hires ex-AWS executive to lead Asia partners amid 85% growth

Databricks has appointed former Amazon Web Services executive Briscoe to lead its Asia Pacific & Japan partner organisation. She previously headed AWS's partner operations in the region and held similar roles at Microsoft and Cisco. The move supports Databricks' regional expansion. In April, the company named Simon Davies as regional leader and reported over 85% year-on-year growth in its fourth quarter. It now has more than 1,500 employees across Asia Pacific & Japan and plans to establish headquarters in Singapore. Databricks works with over 1,000 partners regionally and 8,000 globally through its Brickbuilder Partner Network. The company's AWS business has surpassed a $1 billion run rate. International Data Corporation forecasts Asia/Pacific AI spending will reach $175 billion by 2028.

Tech in Asia
Jul 17th, 2026
Coatue leads $3B Databricks investment at $134B valuation

Coatue Management is reportedly leading a $3 billion investment in Databricks, according to recent reports. The data analytics company previously raised roughly $5 billion earlier in 2026 at a $134 billion valuation. Databricks sells a lakehouse platform combining data lake and data warehouse capabilities and has expanded into AI software for enterprise applications. The company reported $5.4 billion in revenue run rate in February, up over 65% year on year, which grew to $6.9 billion by June. The earlier financing round included $2 billion in debt capacity intended to fund AI products, acquisitions and employee liquidity. At its current valuation, Databricks exceeds Snowflake's market capitalisation of approximately $83 billion. Management has indicated the company may remain private until market conditions improve.