Director of Engineering (Data Infrastructure)

(P-1384) About the Team 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. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer-obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started. In this role, you will work closely with leaders across the company, within engineering, as well as with product management, field engineering, recruiting and HR. You will lead critical initiatives that enhance developer productivity and drive innovation in the developer platform space. You will be at the forefront of integrating AI tools into the developer workflow, shaping the future of AI-assisted development. 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 Partnering with other engineering and product leaders on planning, prioritization and staffing Creating a culture of excellence on the team while leading with empathy What we look

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. As the Director of Engineering at Smartsheet India, you will build capabilities to empower the world's largest companies to transform their approach to work. You will guide teams that own the grid ecosystem - defining how data linking, synchronization, and grid infrastructure evolve as a cohesive platform. You will ensure architectural decisions are coherent and avoid fragmentation. You will be willing to challenge technical choices. Platform Reliability & Operational Excellence: You will be accountable for the availability and performance of foundational services that other teams depend on. Drive a high bar for on-call health, incident response, and SLA/SLO definition across all the services. You will manage cross-pillar/cross-domain dependencies, negotiate API contracts, and prevent the grid ecosystem from becoming a delivery bottleneck. You will balance the needs of user-facing product features with infrastructural stability and operational health. You will ensure career growth paths are clear for engineers across that spectrum, and develop a strong sense of customer centricity and pillar identity for your teams. You will be comfortable accepting responsibility for impact, service availability, and the effectiveness of your teams. You will be comfortable being at the forefront of AI adoption for delivery and operations, leaning in and helping the team leverage AI for optimum delivery in their ways of working. You are passionate about continuous improvement and have built learning organizations that keep up w

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 200+ public data centers globally and thousands of private sites at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Role We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team. This is a hybrid role, reporting to the Sr. Director of Software Engineering in the Platform Convergence department. In this role, you will design and scale high-performance backend services to drive the evolution of our converged platform. You will collaborate across teams to build robust distributed systems while mentoring engineers to uphold technical excellence. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Design and build a low-latency, high-throughput data forwarding plane using Rust and async/await models for efficient service-oriented infrastructure Develop distributed, scalable systems with a heavy focus on concurrency, fault tolerance, and messaging Implement and maintain gRPC-based APIs and services to integrate forwarding plane capabilities with control and orchestration layers Optimize system performance through deep profiling across kernel-sp

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 200+ public data centers globally and thousands of private sites at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Role We are seeking an experienced Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our dynamic SRE Cloud Infrastructure & Operations team. In this high-impact role, you will report directly to the Director of Site Reliability Engineering and play a pivotal part in architecting, scaling, and maintaining our next-generation cloud infrastructure. You will bridge the gap between development and operations, ensuring our large-scale distributed systems are highly available, secure, and incredibly resilient. What You'll Do (Key Responsibilities) Architecting & Automating: Design, implement, and manage various advanced cloud management automations to eliminate toil and accelerate delivery Container Orchestration: Oversee and optimize containerized architectures using EKS and GKE to ensure robust production performance Observability Systems: Lead the creation, deployment, and optimization of highly scalable monitoring and alerting s

Couchbase, the operational data platform for AI, empowers businesses to succeed by bringing data to life in new ways. Major market-leading companies rely on Couchbase for mission critical operational, analytical, mobile and AI workloads. Built to replace legacy infrastructure and fragmented data services, Couchbase empowers enterprises with a unified platform architected for performance, flexibility and global scale. With Couchbase, organizations bring their data to life, launching game‑changing customer experiences, exploring the limitless potential of AI, and seamlessly extending applications from the cloud to the edge and beyond. Couchbase’s AI‑ready technology and enterprise partnership model eliminate complexity and reduce total cost of ownership, enabling teams to stay agile, innovative and secure. Couchbase believes data should never slow you down, but act as the foundation for your next breakthrough. Discover why Couchbase is trusted to help the world’s biggest players scale, move fast and stay resilient, no matter what’s next on their roadmap. Visit couchbase.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X. Want to be part of our story? Apply today! Strategic Account Director – India, Bengaluru Preferred Vertical Experience: Retail | E-commerce | Fintech | Digital Natives We are looking for an exceptional enterprise sales professional to drive Couchbase’s growth across some of India’s largest, fastest-growing and most strategic technology-led enterprises. This is a senior individual-contributor role for a proven enterprise seller who can build relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, Chief Product Officers, Heads of Engineering and business leaders, uncover strategic transformation initiatives, and translate technology capabilities into measurable business outcomes. You will be responsible for winning new strategic logos, creating new opportunities and expanding Couchbase’s footprint within existing enterprise customers across Retail, E-commerce, Fintech and Di

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 200+ public data centers globally and thousands of private sites at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Role We are looking for a Staff Software Development Engineer to join our team. This is a hybrid role based in Bangalore, reporting to the Director, of Engineering. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Develop automation frameworks and automate test cases for the various features of Zscaler Client Connector. Expand automation coverage and infrastructure to improve the quality and efficiency of testing. Understand requirements, develop an exhaustive test plan, execute manual and automated test cases, dig deeper into issues, identify root causes and articulate defects clearly. Deliver a high-quality robust product in a fast-paced environment. Work closely with the Development, Product Management, and cloud Operations teams from design to release of the product/ feature. Recreate complex customer and production reported issues to determine root cause and verify the fixt Who You Are (Success Pr