This role is not simply about running programs,it is about designing and scaling the engineering platforms, guardrails, and operating models that make secure and compliant product development the default across a rapidly growing, multi-cloud ecosystem.

As a Director of Engineering, Governance Foundation, you will lead a team of senior security engineers, partner with product and infrastructure leaders, and shape the foundational governance systems that enable Databricks to innovate quickly while maintaining world-class security and customer trust.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Defining the company-wide strategy for embedding security, privacy, and responsible data use across engineering workflows and platform components.

• Building scalable governance frameworks that help engineering teams design secure systems from the start, not after the fact.

• Establishing and leading a Security & Privacy Postmortem Review process that drives learning, accountability, and long-term resilience.

• Ensuring insights from incidents translate into systemic improvements across tools, infrastructure, and engineering culture.

• Rebuilding and scaling a Security Champions Network that brings security and governance expertise directly into product and infrastructure teams.

• Creating centralized enablement, tooling, and shared learning systems that allow thousands of engineers to integrate security seamlessly.

• Leading efforts to ensure responsible data use across AI/ML systems, SaaS environments, and internal workspaces.

• Defining and enforcing policies that uphold privacy, integrity, auditability, and proper data lifecycle management.

• Transforming security into a key enabler for engineering velocity.

• Delivering automation, self-service tools, and intelligent guardrails that reduce developer friction while increasing safety and compliance.

• Building JIT (Just-In-Time) security education and systems that proactively surface risky behaviour before it becomes an incident.

• Identifying and elevating Databricks' security posture to exceed DB50 customer expectations, including areas such as audit logging, controlled access workflows, secure asset import/export, behaviour monitoring and lineage.

• Partnering with security, IT, and compliance teams to ensure readiness for the most demanding enterprise and regulated environments.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• 10+ years of experience in large-scale software engineering, with at least several years leading engineering managers and senior ICs.

• Strong technical grounding in backend systems, distributed systems, identity/security, or enterprise cloud platforms.

• Experience defining governance, security, or enterprise-grade platform capabilities.

• A background as a senior IC (e.g., Staff/Principal Engineer) at some point,this role requires deep technical credibility.

• Proven success hiring, developing, and retaining senior engineering talent.

• Expertise driving cross-functional technical programs with senior stakeholders.

• Experience building cloud-agnostic or multi-cloud services.

• Background in enterprise features such as access control, policy engines, compliance, or identity systems.

• Experience leading organisations through scaling phases in high-growth environments.

You will be rewarded with a competitive salary range of $255,900-$305,350 USD, plus eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

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