Senior Staff Software Engineer - Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement

Databricks · Zürich, Switzerland · Engineering · listed February 13, 2026

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The shape of it

Seniority
Staff
Experience asked
15+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
8
Length
684 words

In the posting’s own words

Unity Catalog is our platform native unified and open governance for data and AI. It eliminate silos, simplify governance and accelerate insights at scale. We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to come tech lead Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement. We build and harden the runtime enforcement layer for Unity Catalog, ensuring secure, consistent authorization and data access across Databricks compute, engines, and clouds. This reduces incidents and simplifies customer choices by unifying enforcement semantics.

What it asks for · 8

  • 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
  • Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
  • Extensive experience building and maintaining distributed systems.
  • Security first mindset.
  • Cross-org leadership in ambiguous, incident-heavy environments; disciplined rollout and ops maturity.
  • Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
  • Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction.
  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

What the job covers

  • Lead and grow and engineering team delivering runtime enforcement outcomes in a high-severity, cross-org domain; establish scope, SLAs, and phased roadmaps.
  • Establish single-source-of-truth scope, operating model, and durable mechanisms for enforcement.
  • Lead multi-year, multi-team initiatives that shape how Databricks enforces Unity Catalog at runtime across compute types and engines.
  • Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services.
  • Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.
  • Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
  • Contribute as a technical team lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.

Degree language

  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

Tools and skills named

Data
  • Databricks3×
Cloud & infra
  • Distributed systems2×
Product & design
  • User experience
Security & compliance
  • Security
Ways of working
  • Mentorship

Words the posting leans on

  • data7×
  • customer6×
  • lead6×
  • experience5×
  • technical4×
  • unity catalog4×
  • platform3×
  • runtime enforcement3×
  • scale3×
  • software3×
  • world3×
  • build2×
  • catalog runtime2×
  • cloud2×
  • compute2×
  • cross-org2×

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