Director, Engineering Governance- Bellevue, WA

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">P-1494</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Databricks is the Lakehouse company. More than 7,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, H&amp;M and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to unify their data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow, Databricks is on a mission to help data teams solve the world’s toughest problems. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn, andFacebook.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For more information, visit <a href="https://www.databricks.com&quot;&gt;www.databricks.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About the Team</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are seeking a highly technical and influential Director of Engineering, Governance Foundation to define how security, privacy, and responsible data practices are built into the core of Databricks’ products and infrastructure. This role is not simply about running programs—it is about designing and scaling the engineering platforms, guardrails, and operating models that make secure and compliant product development the default across a rapidly growing, multi-cloud ecosystem.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is a strategic, hands-on technical leadership role with significant cross-company impact. You will lead a team of senior security engineers, partner with product and infrastructure leaders, and shape the foundational governance systems that enable Databricks to innovate quickly while maintaining world-class security and customer trust.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What You’ll Own</strong></span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Security &amp; Privacy Governance Architecture</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Define the company-wide strategy for embedding security, privacy, and responsible data use across engineering workflows and platform components.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build scalable governance frameworks that help engineering teams design secure systems from the start, not after the fact.</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Incident Learning &amp; Prevention</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Establish and lead a Security &amp; Privacy Postmortem Review process that drives learning, accountability, and long-term resilience.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ensure insights from incidents translate into systemic improvements across tools, infrastructure, and engineering culture.</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Security Champions &amp; Distributed Expertise</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Rebuild and scale a Security Champions Network that brings security and governance expertise directly into product and infrastructure teams.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Create centralized enablement, tooling, and shared learning systems that allow thousands of engineers to integrate security seamlessly.</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Data Governance for Products &amp; AI</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lead efforts to ensure responsible data use across AI/ML systems, SaaS environments, and internal workspaces.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Define and enforce policies that uphold privacy, integrity, auditability, and proper data lifecycle management.</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Developer-Centric Security Enablement</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;&