Director of Engineering - Databricks Commercialization & Marketplace

Databricks • Bellevue, WA

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About The Position

The Director of Engineering will lead the engineering organization responsible for Databricks’ commercial engine, which supports pricing, contracting, rating, billing, and marketplace capabilities across major cloud platforms. The role sets product and technology strategy for how Databricks commercializes its products, with the goal of building a fully automated, zero-touch order-to-cash flow and a next-generation billing architecture. The organization supports six domains: pricing configuration; orders and contracts; subscriptions; rating; billing; and marketplace services.

The Director owns business outcomes for revenue-critical, cross-functional programs and works closely with Finance, Product, IT, Accounts, and GTM teams. The role develops reusable platform capabilities so new pricing models and routes to market can be launched quickly and safely, while maintaining high standards for reliability, correctness, SOX and compliance readiness, security, cost visibility, and operational efficiency. It also partners with Finance and Accounting to translate close, accounting, and compliance needs into engineering design and improve Month End Close and audit readiness.

The Director will scale the organization by developing engineering managers and tech-lead managers, establishing clear subteams and ownership, coaching leaders, and hiring senior engineering and management talent for the Money Bellevue site. The position leads an established team and helps shape the next generation of Databricks’ commerce engine.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years leading engineering organizations and managing managers, ideally in billing, payments, commerce, fintech, or other systems where errors can cost revenue or create regulatory exposure.
• Track record of delivering large, revenue-critical cross-functional programs on time and with high quality.
• Technical depth in distributed systems and large-scale data pipelines, including the ability to discuss correctness, idempotency, reconciliation, and data lineage with technical leads.
• Fluency in order-to-cash and finance concepts, including pricing and discounting, contracts, revenue recognition, invoicing, month-end close, and SOX controls.
• Experience earning trust as a partner to Finance and Accounting leaders.
• Strong product judgment, including identifying commercial-platform gaps, shaping requirements with Product, and making build-versus-buy decisions.
• Ability to communicate strategy clearly to executives and influence peers in Product, Finance, IT, and GTM without direct authority.
• Experience scaling an organization quickly while maintaining a high hiring bar, developing leaders and engineers, and keeping them engaged on internal platform work.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field.

Nice To Haves

• MS degree preferred.
• Experience with Kafka, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, or cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate multi-year product and technology strategy for the commerce engine, including zero-touch order-to-cash and next-generation billing architecture.
• Own end-to-end outcomes for revenue-critical cross-functional programs, including dependency plans, accountable owners, timelines, quality standards, and early escalation of risks.
• Build reusable commercialization platform capabilities for credits, commits, conditional benefits, marketplace, and partner billing.
• Maintain standards for reliability, correctness, SOX and compliance readiness, security, cost visibility, and operational efficiency.
• Partner with Business and Finance to incorporate accounting, close, and compliance requirements into engineering design.
• Improve Month End Close timelines and audit readiness, earning the trust of Technical Accounting, Revenue Ops, and Strategy & Execution leaders.
• Develop the engineering leadership bench, establish clear subteams and domain ownership, and coach managers with specific feedback and career plans.
• Own hiring for the Money Bellevue site, source and close senior engineering and management talent, place hires in the best interests of Money teams, and help raise Databricks’ engineering hiring bar.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director