Staff Partner Engineer, Azure

Responsibilities

• Own the Databricks-Azure product-to-cloud technical roadmap, serving as the primary interface between Databricks Product Management and Azure partner teams.
• Track and drive resolution of cross-company dependencies and blockers, manage joint milestone timing, and own coordination rhythms.
• Drive engineering integration work between Databricks and Azure product teams from scoping through delivery.
• Create and maintain technical architecture artifacts showing integration patterns, architecture diagrams, and reference implementations.
• Enable field teams with technical guidance on Azure-Databricks integration patterns.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cloud solution architecture, partner engineering, or technical program management roles, with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure services and architecture patterns.
• Proven experience managing strategic technical partnerships at VP/C-level.
• Hands-on technical skills with Python, SQL, infrastructure-as-code, and API integration patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to manage high-stakes partner relationships.
• Deep knowledge of Databricks platform and Microsoft data/AI ecosystem.
• Excellent communication and influence skills.

Preferred

• Prior experience in Partner Solutions Architect or Alliance Engineering roles at cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) or major ISVs.
• Background working at or with Microsoft.
• History of driving product-to-product integrations between major platforms.
• Familiarity with modern development workflows and AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex).