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Head of Corporate Engineering

Databricks
San Francisco, USAfull_timePosted 27 Jun 2026

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<p>GAQ125R25</p> <p>As Head of Corporate Engineering, you will be responsible for Enterprise engineering and operations globally. You will be responsible for building and managing a highly technical enterprise engineering team, developing first principled-based strategies, and enabling strong enterprise security. Key responsibilities include engineering, securing and optimizing cloud infrastructure, Identity and Access Management, Endpoints, Collaboration tools, and ensuring compliance with SOX, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP compliance. The Head of Corporate Engineering will work closely with R&amp;D on managing engineering tools like Jira, Confluence, and GitHub, driving efficient adoption and integration. Strong technical and influencing leadership principles coupled with the ability to manage a complex, scaling, and fast-moving enterprise environment are essential.</p> <p>This role reports directly to the Vice President, Infrastructure and Operations</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p> <p>In this influential role, you will be responsible for:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li><strong>Securing the Enterprise:</strong> Working closely with Enterprise Security organization to harden and secure our cloud environments, secret management, collaboration tools, endpoints, SaaS environments, IAM tools, and more. Success measured in continuous improvement of our enterprise security hardening standards</li> <li><strong>Building and Scaling our Cloud Infrastructure</strong>: Your team will be responsible for establishing and implementing enterprise cloud infrastructure including establishing Infrastructure Provisioning, SRE services, 24/7 on-call support, Infra as Code, observability, and more. In addition, you will be responsible for managing cloud budgets, vendor management, and establishing cost optimization initiatives. Success is measured in increased developer velocity while securing &amp; scaling the cloud infrastructure</li> <li><strong>Engineering Tooling</strong>: Partner closely with R&amp;D teams to establish policies, configurations, run-books, SLAs, hardening, scalability and availability of engineering tools like Github, Jira, Atlassian, and more</li> <li><strong>Endpoint Engineering</strong>: Enable extreme automation for endpoint management with zero-touch deployment, observability (synthetic and real-time), provisioning/de-provisioning, and establishing standards / SLAs. Enforce security policies, configure &amp; manage security settings and ensure compliance across all endpoints and mobile devices. Success is measured in terms of end-user satisfaction and % of manual touch.&nbsp;</li> <li><strong>Collaboration Management</strong>: Ensure we provide world class tools to our employees to be extremely productive and collaborative. This would

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