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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-18 Aarhus, Denmark Hybrid ICT

Company shared salary

NA

Market rate

12,500 EUR–18,333 EUR/mo (150,000 EUR–219,996 EUR/yr)

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

About the Company

Databricks builds and operates a large scale data and AI infrastructure platform that enables data teams to solve challenging problems, from transportation to medical breakthroughs. Founded by engineers with a focus on customer obsession, the company tackles technical challenges by designing next generation UI/UX, scaling services across millions of virtual machines, and delivering unified governance through Unity Catalog.

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.