# Principal Engineer, Compute Fleet Management

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $264k – $322k/yr
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Fleet Management, GPU, Cloud Infrastructure, High Availability Systems, Resource Optimization
**Posted:** 2026-01-30

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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).

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