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You must have a track record of:\nLeading Transformative Projects: Taking ownership of complex, cross-team, cross-layer, and multi-quarter strategic engineering initiatives from concept to execution.\nDistributed Systems Mastery: Deep, hands-on experience developing and operating high-scale distributed systems on at least one major public cloud.\nInfluence Without Authority: Proven ability to drive consensus, establish technical direction, and lead large technical efforts across organizational boundaries.\nExecution Discipline: Exceptional strength in planning, tracking project progress, and managing complex cross-organizational dependencies.\nThe Edge: Highly Desirable Experience\nExperience managing and scaling a massive fleet of GPUs for AI/ML workloads.\nExperience with developing and operating large-scale distributed systems across all major clouds (AWS, Azure, and GCP).\nPay Range Transparency\nDatabricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. 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