Databricks
About this role
This is the top of the individual contributor ladder rather than a step toward management, and Databricks describes it as an executive engineering individual contributor with full ownership of a product or infrastructure direction in a major area. The scale is the selling point and it is stated concretely: a fleet of millions of virtual machines generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day, where cloud hardware, network and operating system faults are routine and the software has to hide them from customers. The engineering work is low level systems debugging, performance measurement and optimisation on large production clusters, plus architecture design and influence over the product roadmap. At 15 or more years it is the most senior engineering seat in today's edition.
Who this is for
The employer asks for 15 or more years of industry experience building and supporting large scale distributed systems.
The day to day: delivering a highly scalable, available and fault tolerant engine that processes hundreds of terabytes of data daily across thousands of customers; low level systems debugging plus performance measurement and optimisation on large production clusters; building architecture designs, influencing the product roadmap and taking ownership of new projects; using your experience to prevent and investigate production issues; and planning and leading complex technical projects that span several teams.
The posting describes the level explicitly: full ownership of product or infrastructure direction in a major area, driving it from initial development to scalable solutions with clear business impact, acting as a force multiplier by improving stability, reliability and organisational process, mentoring senior engineers, contributing to recruiting and leading high impact company projects.
Location is Bengaluru. The posting does not state office days.
Good fit if you have fifteen years of distributed systems work and want scope over a major area without moving into people management. Not a fit if you are targeting a management track, or if you want narrow focus: this role is explicitly cross team and expects influence on organisational process as well as code.
The day to day: delivering a highly scalable, available and fault tolerant engine that processes hundreds of terabytes of data daily across thousands of customers; low level systems debugging plus performance measurement and optimisation on large production clusters; building architecture designs, influencing the product roadmap and taking ownership of new projects; using your experience to prevent and investigate production issues; and planning and leading complex technical projects that span several teams.
The posting describes the level explicitly: full ownership of product or infrastructure direction in a major area, driving it from initial development to scalable solutions with clear business impact, acting as a force multiplier by improving stability, reliability and organisational process, mentoring senior engineers, contributing to recruiting and leading high impact company projects.
Location is Bengaluru. The posting does not state office days.
Good fit if you have fifteen years of distributed systems work and want scope over a major area without moving into people management. Not a fit if you are targeting a management track, or if you want narrow focus: this role is explicitly cross team and expects influence on organisational process as well as code.
Apply on company site
Opens databricks.com, the employer's own application page. Applying is always free.