Databricks is a leading data and AI company that empowers data teams to tackle complex challenges. The Engineering Manager for Identity and Access Management (IAM) will lead a team to define strategies for authentication, authorization, and identity services, ensuring secure and scalable solutions across the platform.
Responsibilities:
- Define and drive the strategy for IAM systems, including authentication and access control
- Build and scale a high-performing engineering team focused on authentication, authorization, and identity management at cloud scale
- Provide technical oversight on architecture and design for IAM components that can operate at massive scale, with high requirements for reliability, security, and performance
- Partner with engineering and product leaders across Databricks to embed secure, scalable identity solutions into every aspect of our product
- Ensure regulatory compliance and alignment with industry best practices for IAM, helping customers meet their own governance, privacy, and security needs
- Attract and grow top engineering talent, building a team culture that emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and customer trust
Requirements:
- 9+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with 2+ years of engineering leadership experience in a fast paced, dynamic environment
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems with high availability and security requirements
- Strong track record building and managing high-performing teams, including experience scaling organizations through multiple phases of growth
- Proven success driving cross-functional security initiatives and influencing leaders without direct authority
- Ability to provide technical direction at the architecture level while fostering a pragmatic execution mindset
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to evangelize IAM practices and inspire both teams and stakeholders
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field