Head of Corporate Engineering

About the role

As Head of Corporate Engineering, you will be responsible for Enterprise engineering and operations globally. You will build and manage a highly technical enterprise engineering team, develop first-principle-based strategies, and enable strong enterprise security. This role reports directly to the Vice President, Infrastructure and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Securing the Enterprise: Work closely with the Enterprise Security organization to harden and secure cloud environments, secret management, collaboration tools, endpoints, SaaS environments, IAM tools, and more. Success is measured by continuous improvement of enterprise security hardening standards.
• Building and Scaling our Cloud Infrastructure: Establish and implement enterprise cloud infrastructure, including Infrastructure Provisioning, SRE services, 24/7 on-call support, Infra as Code, observability, and more. Manage cloud budgets, vendor relationships, and cost optimization initiatives. Success is measured by increased developer velocity while securing and scaling 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, and Atlassian.
• 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 and manage security settings, and ensure compliance across all endpoints and mobile devices. Success is measured by end-user satisfaction and percentage of manual touch.
• Collaboration Management: Provide world-class tools to enhance employee productivity and collaboration, including 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, including IAM implementation, access standards enforcement, SLA management, and compliance with standards like FedRAMP, IL5, and PCI. Oversee both internal and external identity providers. Success is measured by compliance, identity governance, and availability.

Desired Success Outcomes

• A high-performing enterprise engineering team capable of handling complex technical projects with agility and high quality.
• A well-defined cloud strategy ensuring the stability, scalability, and security of cloud infrastructure.
• An overhaul of current processes and workflows to address inefficiencies and increase team velocity.
• Robust endpoint security with comprehensive security measures for all endpoints, including Mac, Windows, and mobile devices.
• High-quality employee experience with productivity tools (Gmail, Slack, Atlassian tools, Moveworks, GitHub) and a robust forward-looking roadmap.
• Efficient operational support for Tier 3 IT services with minimized production incidents.
• Implementation of robust incident and change management processes with mature operational practices.
• Efficient and mature processes for system integrations related to Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As), ensuring timely and smooth transitions.
• Development and implementation of automation tools and frameworks, identifying automation opportunities to reduce manual toil and improve accuracy.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience managing Cloud infrastructure at large enterprises.
• Extensive experience managing public cloud implementations in AWS; experience with GCP and Azure is a plus.
• In-depth understanding of cloud-native technologies to lead and guide the team.
• 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), and DevOps measurements such as DORA KPIs.
• In-depth understanding of collaboration tools' features, functionalities, and configurations (e.g., Gmail, Slack). Ability to integrate and optimize 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.
• Strong communication skills, with clear verbal and written communication.
• Collaborative style: partners well with cross-functional teams to solve complex problems and deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Ability to provide mentorship and guidance to team members to keep their skills and knowledge up-to-date.

Pay

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $265,000—$364,300 USD. Actual compensation is based on factors unique to each candidate, including job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. The total compensation package may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics, and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe, and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, and MLflow.

Benefits

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