Engineering Manager (Ingestion)

Databricks Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks Inc. in Bengaluru seeks a senior leader to run the Lakeflow Connect organization in India, guiding a product-focused data ingestion initiative at scale.

You will partner with product leadership across time zones, grow high-performance teams, and shape the architectural direction of large-scale ingestion services that power dashboards, notebooks and other surfaces. This role requires 10+ years in distributed systems, proven leadership, and a track record of shipping cloud-based

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven ability to build and lead high-performance teams.
• Experience attracting and hiring engineers who meet hiring principles.
• Experience building and running cloud platforms or SaaS products.
• Ability to collaborate with product management and customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale the Lakeflow Connect organization in India, partnering with product leadership.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to align engineering, design and product roadmaps.
• Mentor leaders, grow teams, and shape the long-term architecture of ingestion services.
• Drive delivery milestones and ensure surface integration across Databricks products.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership

Hiring engineers

Cloud platforms

SaaS

Cross-functional collaboration

Customer engagement

Job description

At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs.

Ingesting data into the Lakehouse is a strategic area of investment for Databricks and a key enabler for Data and AI workflows. Lakeflow Connect is looking to solve this problem by providing ready-to-use, point-and-click connectors for a wide variety of sources, including enterprise applications (like Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow, SharePoint), databases (e.g., SQL Server), cloud storage, message queues, and local files.

In addition to being an important part of Lakeflow and Data Engineering, Connect is also a key platform capability. Every surface in Databricks (Dashboards, Notebooks, SQL, AI) requires ingestion capabilities and the lead for this role will need to work closely with other products to embed Connect into these surfaces.

We are looking for a senior leader to run our Connect organization in India. This is a great opportunity to lead a key strategic initiative for Databricks. The ideal candidate would have experience leading teams that build Data infrastructure as well as interest/experience in running product centric organizations. We would also look for the ability to collaborate effectively across time zones as well organizational boundaries.

The impact you will have:

• Solve real business needs at a large scale by applying your software engineering
• Ensure consistent delivery against milestones and strong alignment with the field working "two-in-a-box" with product leadership
• Evolve organizational structure to align with long term initiatives, build strong "5 ingredient" teams with good comms architecture
• Manage technical debt, including long term technical architecture decisions and balance product roadmap
• Leading and participating in technical, product, and design discussions
• Building, managing, and operating a highly scalable services in the cloud
• Growing leaders on the team by providing coaching, mentorship, and growth opportunities

What we look for:

• 10+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems
• Building, growing, and managing high-performance teams
• Ability to attract and hire engineers who meet the Databricks hiring principles
• Existing experience building and running cloud platforms-or-demonstrated ability to quickly learn new concepts in the SaaS space (e.g technical background and fast learner).
• Experience working cross-functionality with product management and directly with customers; ability to deeply understand product and customer personas.

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter ,LinkedIn and Facebook . Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here .

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