Engineering Manager

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, Azure, AWS, Data science techniques, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AI technology

Job Description

Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We constantly push the boundaries of data and AI technology, while simultaneously operating with the resilience, security and scale that is critical to making customers successful on our platform.

We develop and operate one of the largest scale software platforms. The fleet consists of millions of virtual machines, generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day. At our scale, we regularly observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above.

To continue scaling the business, we are establishing a major engineering center in Toronto. As a first step, we are looking for a few engineering managers/directors and senior engineers to form the Toronto founding team. As a founding member of our Canadian R&D center, you will be critical in growing the new Toronto engineering center to a major, high functioning R&D organization for Databricks.

The impact you will have:

• Recruit a world-class software engineering team, from sourcing to closing.
• Lead and drive high performance engineering team building a reliable, secure, and scalable SaaS infrastructure and product.
• Establish high technical standards through processes and culture.
• Mentor and coach engineers to help them carve out a fulfilling career.
• Help develop a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Roll up the sleeves and implement major parts of the vision.
• Evangelize and uphold our cultural principles: be customer obsessed, be data-driven, team work makes the dream work, and own it.

What we look for:

• At least two years of building and leading highly complex, technical engineering teams.
• Driven by delivering customer value and impact.
• Ability to attract, hire, and coach world-class engineers. Can uplevel existing team via hiring top-notch senior talent, growing leaders and helping struggling members. Can gain trust of team and guide their careers.
• Experience managing distributed teams preferred.
• Existing experience building and running cloud platforms or demonstrated ability to quickly learn new concepts in the SaaS space (e.g technical background and fast learner).
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and multiple stakeholders.
• Comfortable working cross functionality with product management and directly with customers; ability to deeply understand product and customer personas.