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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement

🗓️ Posted 2026-07-24 Zürich, Switzerland Hybrid ICT

Company shared salary

NA

Market rate

85,000 EUR–125,000 EUR/mo (1,020,000 EUR–1,500,000 EUR/yr)

Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).

About the Company

At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to 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 customer obsessed - we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We develop and operate one of the largest scale software platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow an 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.

Requirements

  • 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.