Director of Engineering - Databricks Commercialization & Marketplace
Databricks · Bellevue, Washington · Engineering · listed November 5, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Director
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$249,000 – $350,000 USD
Requirements listed
4
Length
1,266 words
In the posting’s own words
As Director of Engineering, you will lead the engineering organization that owns this commercial engine from start to finish. You will set the product and technology strategy for how Databricks makes money. You will be the engineering voice Finance, Product and GTM leaders turn to for strategic decisions. You will also build the leadership bench that lets the organization keep scaling.
What it asks for · 4
- A track record of delivering large, revenue-critical, cross-functional programs (for example, replacing a billing or rating system, migrating a source of truth, or automating order-to-cash) on time and with high quality
- Fluency in order-to-cash and finance concepts: pricing and discounting, contracts, revenue recognition, invoicing, month-end close, SOX controls. You have earned trust as a partner to Finance and Accounting leaders.
- Clear, confident communication of strategy to executives, plus the ability to influence peers in Product, Finance, IT and GTM without direct authority
- BS in Computer Science or a related field; MS preferred. Experience with Kafka, Apache Spark, Delta Lake or cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus.
What the job covers
- Set and communicate the vision. Write the multi-year product and technology strategy for the commerce engine, toward a zero-touch order-to-cash flow and a next-generation billing architecture. Present it clearly to executives, Finance and Product leaders, so that strategy and architecture decisions come to you by default.
- Own business outcomes across orgs, not just your team's part. Revenue-critical programs routinely span 100+ people across Finance, Product, IT, Accounts and GTM. You will own the full outcome: dependency plans with clear owners, timelines, quality bars and escalation triggers, raised early in leadership forums so cross-org risks don't become executive surprises.
- Make commercialization a platform capability. Build reusable building blocks (credits, commits, conditional benefits, marketplace and partner billing) so that new pricing models and routes to market ship in weeks, not quarters.
- Treat foundations as seriously as features. Hold reliability, correctness, SOX and compliance readiness, security, cost visibility and operational load to the same standard as product launches. Billing errors should be structurally impossible, operational work should grow more slowly than revenue, and postmortems should actually lead to change.
- Partner deeply with Business & Finance. Turn accounting, close and compliance requirements into engineering design. Keep improving the Month End Close timeline and audit readiness, and earn the trust of Technical Accounting, Revenue Ops and Strategy & Execution leaders.
- Build a team of leaders. Grow the organization from one with a large group of direct-report engineers to one led by strong engineering managers and tech-lead managers, with clear subteams, domain boundaries and named owners. Coach managers to be great people leaders, give specific feedback and career plans, and recognize high-performing teams publicly.
- Hire like a founder. Act as the hiring owner for the Money Bellevue site. Source and close senior engineering and management talent, put the company first when placing hires across Money teams, and help raise the Databricks engineering hiring bar.
Degree language
- BS in Computer Science or a related field; MS preferred. Experience with Kafka, Apache Spark, Delta Lake or cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus.
Tools and skills named
Data
- Databricks6×
- Spark2×
- Data pipelines
Cloud & infra
- AWS
- Azure
- Distributed systems
- GCP
- Kafka
Go to market
- Go-to-market3×
- Partnerships
Security & compliance
- Audit
- Regulatory
- Security
Ways of working
- Cross-functional
Words the posting leans on
- engineering10×
- product10×
- finance7×
- leaders7×
- billing6×
- close6×
- engine6×
- organization6×
- revenue6×
- contracts5×
- strategy5×
- build4×
- commit4×
- data4×
- lead4×
- managers4×
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