# Sr. Director, Field Engineering
**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Remote
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Postgres, Oltp, Real-Time Data Streaming, Application Apis, Vector Search, Agentic Workflows, Lakehouse Architecture, Pre-Sales, Go-to-Market Strategy, Field Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-06-24
> Lead and scale a 50+ person global Lakebase Field Engineering organization, driving pre-sales wins, platform consumption, and production migrations for enterprise customers. Requires 10+ years building technical pre-sales teams and deep expertise in operational databases and AI/ML frameworks.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Lead a leadership team managing technical field practitioners covering the end-to-end Databricks customer journey from Pre-Sales to Go-Live
- Drive technical/business wins for the Databricks platform and accelerate platform consumption
- Drive workloads to production for all customers in your segment
- Hire, coach, and motivate the team to success
- Report to the Americas Enterprise Field Engineering Leader with full ownership for the global Lakebase Field Engineering organization scaling to over 50 SAs
- Align with Global Lakebase Sales leader to define and operationalize Lakebase GTM strategy, resource prioritization, and distribution
- Build a collaborative culture within a rapid-growth team; manage and mentor leaders and recruit talent focusing on inclusivity and resilience
- Rapidly scale the Field Engineering Lakebase team while maintaining a high bar for talent
- Drive a consistent management operating rhythm to review KPIs (developer adoption, production migration velocity, application launch timelines, low-latency workload success)
- Serve as a thought leader, consulting with strategic customer and partner contacts to position Databricks solutions and build trust
- Build Databricks' brand as a world-class operational database vendor with global GTM teams

## Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in building and scaling technical pre-sales and Customer Delivery teams
- Experience in scaling and mentoring field and technical teams, managing both in-person and remote working models
- Experience working with accounts from Growth/Net New to Large and Complex accounts generating +$1M ARR
- Relevant high-growth enterprise software pre-sales success with senior-level tenure at a reputable software company, with experience in the database market
- Deep technical competence in operational databases (PostgreSQL/OLTP), application development paradigms, real-time data streaming, application APIs, and AI/ML state frameworks (vector search extensions or agentic workflows), alongside strong understanding of core Lakehouse architecture
- Experience instituting processes for technical field members to improve operational efficiency
- Organizational leadership with ability to attract, develop, and retain talent
- Ability to operate in a rapidly changing, ambiguous environment while delivering results in the near term and building for durable, long-term growth
- Open to a minimum travel expectation of 30% as this is a global team

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with high-velocity database launches and production migration velocity metrics
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