The Director of Data & AI Support Engineering - Bangalore will be responsible for leading and growing a regional team of Data & AI technical experts in India, focused on providing resiliency and smooth operation of customer production workloads. This leader will oversee support operations during APJ and EMEA business hours with close alignment with other global teams to ensure 24x7 support coverage through coordination with other regions. This team resolves complex and long-running data engineering use cases raised by Databricks customers to support the success of live use cases - which includes performance optimization, ensuring resiliency of production jobs, helping customers stabilize workloads on new products and features, and more. Reporting to the Global Lead of Frontline Support Engineering - Data & AI - you are able to understand the real-world business problems our customers are solving with data and are committed to helping them achieve reliability and performance of their systems to meet their goals.
The impact you will have:- Serve as the India site leader for an elite team of Data & AI specialists that can provide coverage of customers across EMEA & APJ business hours.
- Grow the technical expertise of the team to support successful adoption of new products and features of the Databricks platform for customer production workloads.
- Engage with top customers to understand how to support their business needs with their Data & AI strategy, in collaboration with field engineering and sales when required.
- Partner with internal product engineering teams to make Databricks products better and more supportable.
- Understand how to maintain high reliability of the Databricks platform to successfully achieve customer business goals.
- Proven people leadership experience: at least 6+ years as a manager of managers.
- 18+ years in the IT industry, with a strong background in Software Engineering with specialization in Data Engineering, ideally with Big Data & Cloud experience.
- Experience leading large teams (100+ employees) in engineering, technical support, or consulting. Support experience is not required - but customer facing experience is highly desirable.
- Hands-on experience in at least two of the following at production scale:
- Big Data (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
- Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence projects
- Data Science / Streaming use cases
- Spark expertise is a big advantage.
- Strong background in customer-facing support leadership roles.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills across distributed systems.
- Strong ownership mindset with ability to thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment with evolving needs.
- Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Benefits
At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
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Skills Required
- Proven people leadership experience: at least 6+ years as a manager of managers.
- 18+ years in the IT industry, with a strong background in Software Engineering with specialization in Data Engineering, ideally with Big Data & Cloud experience.
- Experience leading large teams (100+ employees) in engineering, technical support, or consulting.
- Hands-on experience in at least two of Big Data (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka), Machine Learning, Data Science.
- Strong background in customer-facing support leadership roles.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills across distributed systems.
- Strong ownership mindset with ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or equivalent technical field.
Databricks Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Databricks and has not been reviewed or approved by Databricks.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants and RSUs are a major part of total compensation and are highlighted for meaningful upside potential. Stock-based awards and refreshers contribute to strong overall pay positioning across senior technical and go-to-market roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are complemented by mental-health resources, an EAP, and wellness reimbursements. Health benefits are consistently framed as comprehensive and competitive.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for all parents, fertility support, and backup care options provide tangible assistance for family needs. Hybrid work norms and team-day structure further ease coordination for caregivers.
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What We Do
As the leader in Unified Data Analytics, Databricks helps organizations make all their data ready for analytics, empower data science and data-driven decisions across the organization, and rapidly adopt machine learning to outpace the competition. By providing data teams with the ability to process massive amounts of data in the Cloud and power AI with that data, Databricks helps organizations innovate faster and tackle challenges like treating chronic disease through faster drug discovery, improving energy efficiency, and protecting financial markets.
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