Senior Staff Software Engineer - Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement
Leads the engineering team and cross-organizational initiatives responsible for secure, consistent Unity Catalog runtime enforcement across Databricks compute engines and clouds. The role requires extensive distributed-systems experience, security expertise, operational maturity, and technical leadership.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow an engineering team delivering runtime enforcement outcomes in a high-severity, cross-organizational domain; establish scope, SLAs, and phased roadmaps.
- Establish a single source of truth for scope, operating model, and durable enforcement mechanisms.
- Lead multi-year, multi-team initiatives shaping how Unity Catalog is enforced at runtime across compute types and engines.
- Introduce tools to increase automation and service operability.
- Use deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.
- Plan and lead complex technical projects involving multiple teams.
- Serve as a technical team lead by mentoring others, leading sprint planning, delegating assignments, and participating in project planning.
Requirements
- 15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
- Comfort working toward a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
- Extensive experience building and maintaining distributed systems.
- Security-first mindset.
- Cross-organizational leadership in ambiguous, incident-heavy environments, with disciplined rollout and operational maturity.
- Motivation to deliver customer value and impact.
- Experience driving company initiatives toward customer satisfaction.
- Bachelor's, master's, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks tailored to employees' needs, with details varying by region.
Skills
Distributed Systems, Unity Catalog, Data Governance, Authorization, Data Security, Cloud Computing, Incident Response, Service Operations, Automation, Slas
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