The Director of Data Engineering will lead and scale the Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering functions, owning the post-application data platform and its architecture, governance, and operating model. This foundational leadership role ensures best in class engineering standards, helps drive the organization toward a durable, auditable, data-product operating model, and modernizes and expands a Snowflake-centered data stack to include building and operating scalable distributed data processing and real-time streaming systems that support event-driven data products for operational use cases.

The role partners closely with Product, Software Engineering, Data Product Managers, Marketing, Compliance, Finance and Data Science to ensure our data ecosystem is production-grade, scalable, and compliant in a regulated gaming environment.

What You'll Do:

Team Leadership & Organizational Growth

• Lead and grow Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering teams; recruit, mentor, and elevate technical capabilities around distributed data processing, stream processing, and event-driven architectures
• Define ownership models for platform components and data products; set performance and hiring plans.
• Advance engineering standards for deployment: development, testing, documentation, release management, and SLAs.
• Partner with Data Product Managers to define data assets as versioned, documented data products with clear ownership and SLAs.

Platform, Architecture & Engineering Excellence

• Own the administration, reliability, governance, and strategic expansion of the Snowflake-based post-application data platform to operate scalable distributed data processing pipelines capable of handling high-volume event data across both batch and streaming workloads.
• Manage platform governance, access control, security, cost, and capacity planning.
• Standardize DBT deployment methods, promotion workflows, and environment management.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar) for reproducible, auditable infrastructure.
• Deliver monitoring, observability, lineage, and data quality frameworks; enforce traceability and auditability for regulated reporting.
• Own and evolve ingestion and warehouse architecture and transformation frameworks .
• Improve performance, cost efficiency, reliability, and scalability of data transformation and storage layers.
• Define and enforce engineering standards across the data lifecycle and establish SLAs and reliability metrics for critical assets - ensuring all pipelines, transformations, and reporting are auditable and documented for internal and external review

Event-Driven Architecture & Player 360

• Partner with Software Engineering on event messaging, streaming architecture, and ingestion patterns (built on technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, Spark Structured Streaming, Flink, or equivalent platforms).
• Lead technical design and development of a unified Player 360 data foundation that integrates transactional, behavioral, and event-level data.
• Align application schema design with downstream analytical, product, and regulatory requirements.
• Balance real-time and batch processing strategies according to business needs and cost/complexity tradeoffs.

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related STEM field preferred. Equivalent practical experience will be considered.
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, with 3+ years of experience in leadership roles. 
• Experience transitioning an organization from private/startup to public company.
• Experience in regulated industries (gaming, fintech, payments, healthcare).
• Prior experience building Player 360 / Customer 360 platforms.
• Deep hands-on experience with Terraform / IaC and production-grade streaming systems (Kafka, Kinesis, etc.).
• Familiarity with GenAI governance frameworks and scalable AI integration patterns such as Harness Engineering.
• Able to travel occasionally both domestically and internationally. #LI-REMOTE #LI-PROMOTE

P-1439

As a Senior Applied ML/AI Engineer at Databricks, you will apply machine learning and optimization algorithms to improve the usability and efficiency of the current AutoML and several other user-facing products that will benefit from better classification, regression, forecasting, and recommendations, either classical or based on deep learning. From statistical models all the way down to deep and foundational models, feature augmentation and auto-tuning, our Applied ML/AI team works on some of the most complex, most interesting problems facing businesses, making Databricks' infrastructure and products as performant and cost-efficient as possible. This is a high-impact problem as our customers look at us to deliver the most out of their data.

The impact you will have:

• Build features and run end-to-end systems in a small team of experienced engineers and data scientists.
• Shape the direction of our applied ML investment by engaging with engineering and product teams across the company.
• Drive the development and deployment of state-of-the-art ML/AI models and systems that directly impact the capabilities and performance of Databricks’ products, infrastructure, and services.
• Architect and implement robust, scalable ML infrastructure, including model training and serving components to support seamless integration of AI/ML models into production environments.
• Work on novel modeling techniques in the field of ML for forecasting.
• Possibilities to contribute to the broader AI community by presenting at conferences and actively participating in open source projects, enhancing Databricks’ reputation as an industry leader.

What we look for:

• 2-8 years of machine learning engineering experience in high-velocity, high-growth companies
• Strong understanding of both computer systems and statistics
• Experience developing AI/ML systems at scale in production
• Strong track record of ML modeling that goes beyond using standard libraries.
• Strong coding and software engineering skills, and familiarity with software engineering principles around testing, code reviews, and deployment.
• A large breadth of knowledge or willingness to develop mathematical modelling beyond the ML.
• Nice to have: experience deploying, scaling, and monitoring models in production; understanding of the unique infrastructure challenges posed by training and serving predictions in Tier 0 environments.

Why Join Us?

At Databricks, we are building state-of-the-art AI solutions that redefine how users interact with data and our products. You’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of AI-driven products at Databricks, work with cutting-edge models, and collaborate with a world-class team of AI and ML experts.

If you're excited about pushing the boundaries of AI in real-world applications, we’d love to hear from you!

P-1415

Our mission at Databricks is to radically simplify the whole data lifecycle from ingestion to ETL, BI, and all the way up to ML/AI with a unified platform. To achieve this goal, we believe the data warehouse architecture as we know it today will be replaced by a new architectural pattern, Lakehouse (CIDR 2021 paper), open platforms that unify data warehousing and advanced analytics. This new architecture will help address several major challenges, including data staleness, reliability, total cost of ownership, data lock-in, and limited use-case support.

To achieve this vision, Databricks is building the next generation (decoupled) query engine and structured storage system that can outperform specialized data warehouses in relational query performance. Yet we will retain the expressiveness and robustness of general purpose systems such as Apache Spark™ to support diverse workloads ranging from ETL to data science. You will be part of this multi-year journey.

As part of this team, you will design these next-generation systems that leapfrog state-of-the-art within the following areas:

• Query compilation and optimization
• Distributed query execution and scheduling
• Vectorized execution engine
• Data security
• Resource management
• Transaction coordination
• Efficient storage structures (encodings, indexes)
• Automatic physical data optimization

The responsibilities you will have:

• Drive requirements clarity and design decisions for ambiguous problems
• Produce technical design documents and project plans
• Develop new features
• Mentor more junior engineers
• Test and rollout to production, monitoring.

What we look for:

• A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, or performance optimization
• Are comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
• Be customer-oriented and focused on having an impact
• 5+ years of experience working in a related system
• Optional: PhD in databases or distributed systems

P-1415

At Databricks, we are passionate about helping data teams 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, Databricks has started a multi-year journey to build the best Data Intelligence Platform. For this we are building on top of a great foundation but our goal is to go further to build dramatically better products. From the Storage Engine (data layout, encryption, caching, ...) to the Query Engine (Vectorization, Query Optimization, …), we want to revisit every component to provide our customers with the fastest, easiest to use and most secure data platform for all their data workloads.

As a software engineer, you will join as a founding member of the not only the Belgrade site, but really as a founding team for our multi-year journey to achieve our Lakehouse vision. You will be involved in the entire development cycle and exemplify all core Databricks values (own-it, data decide, teamwork, customer-obsessed).

The responsibilities you will have:

• Drive requirements clarity and design decisions for ambiguous problems
• Produce technical design documents and project plans
• Develop new features
• Mentor more junior engineers
• Test and rollout to production, monitoring.

What we look for:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience in databases or distributed systems
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact
• 5+ years of production level experience in either Java, Scala or C++
• Solid foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases
• Experience with distributed systems, databases, and big data systems (Apache Spark™, Hadoop)

P-1414

At Databricks, we are passionate about helping data teams 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, Databricks has started a multi-year journey to build the best Data Intelligence Platform. For this we are building on top of a great foundation but our goal is to go further to build dramatically better products. We want to revisit every component to provide our customers with the fastest, easiest to use and most secure data platform for all their data workloads.

As a software engineer, you will join as a founding member of not only the Belgrade site, but really as a founding team for our multi-year journey to achieve our Lakehouse vision. You will be involved in the entire development cycle and exemplify all core Databricks values.

The impact you'll have:

Our backend teams span many domains across our essential service platforms. For instance, you might work on challenges such as:

• Problems that span from product to infrastructure including: distributed systems, at-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration, and developer experience.
• Build reliable, secure and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends, e.g., AWS S3, GCS, Azure Blob Store.
• Develop product features that empower our customers to easily store and access their data.

What we look for:

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
• 3+ years of production level experience in one of: Java, Scala, C++, or similar language
• Experience developing large-scale distributed systems
• Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures
• Knowledge of SQL

P-1414

Our mission at Databricks is to radically simplify the whole data lifecycle from ingestion to ETL, BI, and all the way up to ML/AI with a unified platform. To achieve this goal, we believe the data warehouse architecture as we know it today will be replaced by a new architectural pattern, Lakehouse (CIDR 2021 paper), open platforms that unify data warehousing and advanced analytics. This new architecture will help address several major challenges, including data staleness, reliability, total cost of ownership, data lock-in, and limited use-case support.

To achieve this vision, Databricks is building the next generation (decoupled) query engine and structured storage system that can outperform specialized data warehouses in relational query performance. Yet we will retain the expressiveness and robustness of general purpose systems such as Apache Spark™ to support diverse workloads ranging from ETL to data science. You will be part of this multi-year journey.

As part of this team, you will design these next-generation systems that leapfrog state-of-the-art within the following areas:

• Query compilation and optimization
• Distributed query execution and scheduling
• Vectorized execution engine
• Data security
• Resource management
• Transaction coordination
• Efficient storage structures (encodings, indexes)
• Automatic physical data optimization

The responsibilities you will have:

• Drive requirements clarity and design decisions for ambiguous problems
• Produce technical design documents and project plans
• Develop new features
• Mentor more junior engineers
• Test and rollout to production, monitoring.

What we look for:

• A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, or performance optimization
• Are comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
• Be customer-oriented and focused on having an impact
• 5+ years of experience working in a related system
• Optional: PhD in databases or distributed systems

P-1414

At Databricks, we are passionate about helping data teams 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, Databricks has started a multi-year journey to build the best Data Intelligence Platform. For this we are building on top of a great foundation but our goal is to go further to build dramatically better products. From the Storage Engine (data layout, encryption, caching, ...) to the Query Engine (Vectorization, Query Optimization, …), we want to revisit every component to provide our customers with the fastest, easiest to use and most secure data platform for all their data workloads.

As a software engineer, you will join as a founding member of the not only the Belgrade site, but really as a founding team for our multi-year journey to achieve our Lakehouse vision. You will be involved in the entire development cycle and exemplify all core Databricks values (own-it, data decide, teamwork, customer-obsessed).

The responsibilities you will have:

• Drive requirements clarity and design decisions for ambiguous problems
• Produce technical design documents and project plans
• Develop new features
• Mentor more junior engineers
• Test and rollout to production, monitoring.

What we look for:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience in databases or distributed systems
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact
• 3+ years of production level experience in either Java, Scala or C++
• Solid foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases
• Experience with distributed systems, databases, and big data systems (Apache Spark™, Hadoop)

P-1415

At Databricks, we are passionate about helping data teams 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, Databricks has started a multi-year journey to build the best Data Intelligence Platform. For this we are building on top of a great foundation but our goal is to go further to build dramatically better products. We want to revisit every component to provide our customers with the fastest, easiest to use and most secure data platform for all their data workloads.

As a software engineer, you will join as a founding member of not only the Belgrade site, but really as a founding team for our multi-year journey to achieve our Lakehouse vision. You will be involved in the entire development cycle and exemplify all core Databricks values.

The impact you'll have:

Our backend teams span many domains across our essential service platforms. For instance, you might work on challenges such as:

• Problems that span from product to infrastructure including: distributed systems, at-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration, and developer experience.
• Build reliable, secure and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends, e.g., AWS S3, GCS, Azure Blob Store.
• Develop product features that empower our customers to easily store and access their data.

What we look for:

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
• 5+ years of production level experience in one of: Java, Scala, C++, or similar language
• Experience developing large-scale distributed systems
• Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures
• Knowledge of SQL

P-1416

At Databricks, we are passionate about helping data teams 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, Databricks has started a multi-year journey to build the best Data Intelligence Platform. For this we are building on top of a great foundation but our goal is to go further to build dramatically better products. We want to revisit every component to provide our customers with the fastest, easiest to use and most secure data platform for all their data workloads.

As a software engineer, you will join as a founding member of not only the Belgrade site, but really as a founding team for our multi-year journey to achieve our Lakehouse vision. You will be involved in the entire development cycle and exemplify all core Databricks values.

The impact you'll have:

Our backend teams span many domains across our essential service platforms. For instance, you might work on challenges such as:

• Problems that span from product to infrastructure including: distributed systems, at-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration, and developer experience.
• Build reliable, secure and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends, e.g., AWS S3, GCS, Azure Blob Store.
• Develop product features that empower our customers to easily store and access their data.

What we look for:

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
• 8+ years of production level experience in one of: Java, Scala, C++, or similar language
• Experience developing large-scale distributed systems
• Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures
• Knowledge of SQL

P-1416

Our mission at Databricks is to radically simplify the whole data lifecycle from ingestion to ETL, BI, and all the way up to ML/AI with a unified platform. To achieve this goal, we believe the data warehouse architecture as we know it today will be replaced by a new architectural pattern, Lakehouse (CIDR 2021 paper), open platforms that unify data warehousing and advanced analytics. This new architecture will help address several major challenges, including data staleness, reliability, total cost of ownership, data lock-in, and limited use-case support.

To achieve this vision, Databricks is building the next generation (decoupled) query engine and structured storage system that can outperform specialized data warehouses in relational query performance. Yet we will retain the expressiveness and robustness of general purpose systems such as Apache Spark™ to support diverse workloads ranging from ETL to data science. You will be part of this multi-year journey.

As part of this team, you will design these next-generation systems that leapfrog state-of-the-art within the following areas:

• Query compilation and optimization
• Distributed query execution and scheduling
• Vectorized execution engine
• Data security
• Resource management
• Transaction coordination
• Efficient storage structures (encodings, indexes)
• Automatic physical data optimization

The responsibilities you will have:

• Drive requirements clarity and design decisions for ambiguous problems
• Produce technical design documents and project plans
• Develop new features
• Mentor more junior engineers
• Test and rollout to production, monitoring.

What we look for:

• A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, or performance optimization
• Are comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
• Be customer-oriented and focused on having an impact
• 7+ years of experience working in a related system
• Optional: PhD in databases or distributed systems

P-1416

At Databricks, we are passionate about helping data teams 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, Databricks has started a multi-year journey to build the best Data Intelligence Platform. For this we are building on top of a great foundation but our goal is to go further to build dramatically better products. From the Storage Engine (data layout, encryption, caching, ...) to the Query Engine (Vectorization, Query Optimization, …), we want to revisit every component to provide our customers with the fastest, easiest to use and most secure data platform for all their data workloads.

As a software engineer, you will join as a founding member of the not only the Belgrade site, but really as a founding team for our multi-year journey to achieve our Lakehouse vision. You will be involved in the entire development cycle and exemplify all core Databricks values (own-it, data decide, teamwork, customer-obsessed).

The responsibilities you will have:

• Drive requirements clarity and design decisions for ambiguous problems
• Produce technical design documents and project plans
• Develop new features
• Mentor more junior engineers
• Test and rollout to production, monitoring.

What we look for:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience in databases or distributed systems
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact
• 8+ years of production level experience in either Java, Scala or C++
• Solid foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases
• Experience with distributed systems, databases, and big data systems (Apache Spark™, Hadoop)

P-1341

At Databricks, we are passionate about helping data teams 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 dedicated to our customers, we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for working with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

As a software engineer, you will work with our engineering team to build infrastructure and products for the Databricks platform. You will join a cohort of engineers who will build their careers through collaborative projects and learning opportunities. With a dedicated mentor and supportive team, you'll onboard quickly and start contributing to impactful projects soon after starting here at Databricks!

The impact you will have:

• Work with a team to build features and improve architecture for the Databricks platform
• Develop and extend the Databricks product
• Own full software development lifecycle: design, development, testing, and operating in production
• Build solutions with a high level of reliability, scalability, and security

What we look for:

• You will graduate between fall 2025 and summer 2026 with a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related subject
• You have implementation skills with a general purpose program language, such as Python, Java, or C++
• You have knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and OOP principles
• You have experience managing end-to-end projects

We are hiring Software Engineer - New Grads across multiple offices. Please apply for the single location that you're the most interested in, and we will discuss more with you as you move through the process. We can only consider one application in 30 days.