About this role
Job title: Technical Team Lead, Lakeflow Connect
About the Role Databricks' Lakeflow Connect team builds ready-to-use, point-and-click connectors for a wide variety of sources, including enterprise applications (like Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow, SharePoint), databases (e.g., SQL Server), cloud storage, message queues, and local files. We are looking for engineers with experience in core Database internals to join Lakeflow Connect and help extract data from OLTP systems with minimal load on production systems. The lead for this role will work closely with other products to embed Connect into all surfaces in Databricks (Dashboards, Notebooks, SQL, AI). A key part of Connect is to extract data from OLTP systems while imposing minimal load on production systems, using techniques such as incremental data capture and log parsing.
What You'll Do
- Solve real business needs at scale by delivering a highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant ingestion engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers.
- Perform low-level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters.
- Design architecture, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.
- 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.
- Be a strong influencer or driver in the organization’s roadmap and direction.
- Lead a TLG or similar review committee, or initiate and sustain an org/eng-wide initiative driven by engineering needs.
- Break down complex problems quickly into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, and de-risk (through prototyping/validation).
- Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.
What We're Looking For
- 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience in database replication, backup, transaction recovery at one of the major database vendors (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM etc).
- Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
- Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
- Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
- Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction.
Compensation & 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; Databricks is a global company with offices around the world.