Director of Engineering (Data Infrastructure)

Databricks

8 - 13 years

15 - 20 Lacs

bengaluru

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san automation architecture billing disaster recovery engineering manager open source distribution system data architecture

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Job Description

Deliver the infrastructure vision for systems processing billions in daily billing transactions
with zero tolerance for error, building disaster recovery thats provably reliable, testing frameworks that catch what production sees, correctness systems that make billing errors structurally impossible, and observability that predicts failures before they happen
Build Bengalurus data infrastructure organization by establishing it as the destination for Indias top infrastructure talent
, hiring multiple engineering managers who become force multipliers, and creating a culture where solving hard distributed systems problems at scale is the daily work
Own business-critical systems operating 24/7/365 across 100+ regions where even 99.9% uptime means hours of customer pain, driving reliability improvements that prevent millions in revenue loss while eliminating operational toil through frameworks that make systems self-healing, self-tuning, and self-documenting
Ship platforms that compound engineering leverage across Databricks: correctness frameworks that catch billing errors before customers do, deployment automation that makes regional expansion push-button, data integration systems that process petabyte-scale flows without human intervention, and testing infrastructure where comprehensive coverage is automatic, not heroic
Position infrastructure as product by treating internal engineering teams as customers with SLAs, measuring adoption and satisfaction, iterating based on feedback, and demonstrating that every dollar invested in infrastructure returns multiplicative gains in product velocity, reliability improvements, or cost reductions

What you ll need:

14+ years in distributed systems engineering with 6+ years leading infrastructure organizations and 4+ years managing managers at companies where infrastructure failures meant immediate revenue impact, customer escalations, or regulatory consequences - and you built the systems and teams that made those failures rare
Technical depth across petabyte-scale data pipelines and distributed systems reliability where you can engage from "how should we architect multi-region disaster recovery" to "why is this Kafka cluster exhibiting this latency pattern" while knowing when to coach versus when to decide
Track record defining multi-year infrastructure vision and translating it into sequential deliverables that show value quarterly while building toward architectural end states, positioning infrastructure investments as business enablers rather than cost centers, and making build-vs-buy decisions that compound over time
Experience building 99.999%+ reliable systems with established practices for SLOs/SLIs, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, and sophisticated observability that predicts failures before they happen
Proven ability to scale infrastructure organizations in high-growth environments where youve doubled engineering while maintaining quality bar, developed engineering managers, and created teams where retention is high because the problems are interesting and the culture is strong
Communication skills to make complex infrastructure decisions legible to executives (translating technical investments into business outcomes), influence cross-functional partners without authority, build trust across global teams in different timezones with different working styles, and represent Databricks technical brand externally
BS in Computer Science or Engineering; MS or Ph.D. preferred. Experience with Apache Spark, Delta Lake, large-scale data infrastructure, fintech/billing systems, or leading infrastructure through hypergrowth strongly preferred

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