Databricks: Director of Engineering (Data Infrastructure) — Bengaluru, India

About Databricks

Databricks develops a platform for data, analytics and AI. Its employer material describes bringing related capabilities together so organisations can build and scale applications, analytics and agents using their information. The advertised platform portfolio includes data-engineering, lakehouse, governance and AI-related products. Its business connects the infrastructure used to manage data with the tools used to derive insights or create applications, rather than treating those activities as entirely separate technology projects.

The position and its setting

Databricks lists Director of Engineering (Data Infrastructure) in Bengaluru, India, under reference 8290810002. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Executive Engineering - Pipeline
• Employer listing date: 14 November 2025

Responsibilities and work described

• What you’ll need:
• BS in Computer Science or Engineering
• MS or Ph.D. preferred
• Experience with Apache Spark, Delta Lake, large-scale data infrastructure, fintech/billing systems, or leading infrastructure through hypergrowth strongly preferred

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Experience building 99.999%+ reliable systems with established practices for SLOs/SLIs, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, and sophisticated observability that predicts failures before they happen
• Ability to scale infrastructure organizations in high-growth environments where you've doubled engineering while maintaining quality bar, developed engineering managers, and created teams where retention is high because the problems are interesting and the culture is strong

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Advertised location: Bengaluru, India

Benefits mentioned by the employer

• 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

Conditions requiring the complete notice

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Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Databricks

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Practical preparation: Excel

Excel examples should identify the task, the data and the checks used to avoid an incorrect result. Explain whether you built a reporting workbook, reconciled records, automated a process or maintained an existing model.

Relevant skills

• Spark
• Kafka
• Excel
• AI
• compliance
• investment
• marketing
• communication
• billing