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DatabricksDatabricksBellevue, WA

Principal Engineer, Compute Fleet Management

Leads compute fleet management across AWS, Azure, and GCP, optimizing billions of resources for peak performance, 99.99% availability, and 60%+ utilization. Requires deep distributed systems expertise and cross-team leadership for mission-critical infrastructure.

264k – 322k/yr
On-siteDevOps / SRE

About the role

Outcomes

  • High Availability: Achieve and maintain 99.99% availability for all batch and serving workloads.
  • Stellar Efficiency: Drive utilization to 60% or higher, balancing efficiency with tolerance for cloud failures.
  • Best-in-Class Isolation: Architect and enforce strong security and performance isolation across diverse customer workloads.

Requirements

  • Leading Transformative Projects: Take ownership of complex, cross-team, cross-layer, and multi-quarter strategic engineering initiatives from concept to execution.
  • Distributed Systems Mastery: Deep, hands-on experience developing and operating high-scale distributed systems on at least one major public cloud.
  • Influence Without Authority: Proven ability to drive consensus, establish technical direction, and lead large technical efforts across organizational boundaries.
  • Execution Discipline: Exceptional strength in planning, tracking project progress, and managing complex cross-organizational dependencies.

The Edge: Highly Desirable Experience

  • Experience managing and scaling a massive fleet of GPUs for AI/ML workloads.
  • Experience with developing and operating large-scale distributed systems across all major clouds (AWS, Azure, and GCP).

Skills

Distributed SystemsAWSAzureGCPKubernetesFleet ManagementGPUCloud InfrastructureHigh Availability SystemsResource Optimization

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