Senior Staff Architect - Observability & Governance

Databricks Inc.

Mountain View (CA)

On-site

USD 229,000 - 314,000

Full time

14 days+

Get a reply from this employer

Your resume and cover letter, tailored to exactly what they’re hiring for.

Get past ATS filters

Job summary

Databricks seeks a senior technical leader to drive strategy and execution across Query Observability, SQL Warehouse Management, and Account-Level Observability and Governance. You will define long-term architecture, mentor engineers, and partner with SQL, Unity Catalog, AI, security, and platform teams to deliver scalable visibility across data and control planes.

You will champion reliable software practices, lead high-impact projects, and help admins manage large multi-tenant environments

Qualifications

12+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, observability or governance platforms, databases, or backend infrastructure.
Proven track record as a technical leader on teams in multi-stakeholder environments, delivering long-term architecture with incremental impact.
Strong fundamentals in algorithms and systems design applied to high-throughput problems.
BS in Computer Science; MS/PhD a plus; bonus for LLM-based agentic experiences.

Responsibilities

Set the durable technical direction across query observability, warehouse management, and account-level governance.
Design and lead high-impact projects to improve performance, reliability, and cost transparency for customers.
Build agentic observability and governance experiences across query, warehouse, workspace, and account.
Collaborate with Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog, AI, security, and platform teams to integrate visibility end-to-end.
Mentor senior engineers, establish technical standards, and recruit top talent for observability and governance.
Ensure reliable software and operational practices for surfaces used by thousands of customers.