Staff Databricks Platform Engineer: Platform Governance

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits in Dallas seeks a Staff Databricks Platform Engineer to own the Databricks lakehouse as a product. You will shape workspace topology, governance, and automation, partnering with EA, Security, and Cloud Infra to enable data, analytics, and AI/ML teams.

Lead platform upgrades, cost control, and secure data sharing while mentoring engineers across the Data & AI Platforms org. This role emphasizes reliability, security, and developer velocity.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data or platform engineering, or equivalent.
• 3+ years hands-on Databricks in production.
• Ownership of a shared data platform, not just pipelines.
• Deep knowledge of Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Spark, and Databricks Workflows.
• Strong Python and SQL; IaC with Terraform; CI/CD automation.
• Cloud experience in AWS or Azure (identity, networking, storage, KMS).
• Proven cost and capacity management at enterprise scale.
• Excellent communication to engineering, stakeholders, and leadership.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Own the Databricks platform design and operation across environments.
• Enforce Unity Catalog governance, entitlements, and auditing patterns.
• Build platform automation with Terraform and Databricks provider.
• Define cluster policies, pools, serverless settings, and SQL warehouse standards.
• Lead FinOps: attribute consumption, set budgets, drive spend reductions.
• Ensure secure connectivity and data protection with encryption and key management.
• Design Delta Sharing and cross-workspace data access patterns.
• Develop observability: job reliability, cluster health, query performance.
• Create reusable platform patterns for ingestion, transformation, ML workloads.
• Lead upgrades and migrations; perform root cause analysis on incidents.
• Mentor engineers across teams and align with Databricks support.

Skills

Databricks platform

Python

SQL

Terraform

CI/CD

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Apache Spark

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Cost/FinOps

Leadership/Mentorship

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/SE/IS

Tools

Terraform

Databricks

CI/CD工具

Job description

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits in Dallas seeks a Staff Databricks Platform Engineer to own the Databricks lakehouse as a product. You will shape workspace topology, governance, and automation, partnering with EA, Security, and Cloud Infra to enable data, analytics, and AI/ML teams.

Lead platform upgrades, cost control, and secure data sharing while mentoring engineers across the Data & AI Platforms org. This role emphasizes reliability, security, and developer velocity.