Databricks is hiring in Vancouver — and locals will get a first look tomorrow, August 21, at an exclusive networking event featuring the company’s co-founder Reynold Xin, local R&D leader Ken Wong, and members of the founding team.
The event celebrates the launch of Databricks’ first Canadian research and development hub, right here in Vancouver. Attendees will learn about career opportunities, connect with the team, and hear how Vancouver fits into the AI company’s ambitious growth plans. (Registration is required, and space is limited.)
San Francisco–based Databricks is one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies, recently valued at over $100 billion. With hundreds of employees already in Canada, the company is expanding from sales and customer support into core product development and engineering.
Led by Vancouver tech veteran Ken Wong—co-founder of Datajoy, acquired by Databricks in 2022—the new site will initially focus on four areas: its AI-first business intelligence product (AI/BI), semantic modeling via Unity Catalog, Databricks Apps, and petabyte-scale real-time analytics.
“Vancouver is an obvious next place,” Wong told Techcouver, pointing to the city’s deep bench of business intelligence expertise, international talent pool, and proximity to R&D hubs in Seattle and Silicon Valley.
Databricks already works with many of Canada’s largest enterprises, including Air Canada, Lululemon, Rogers, TD Bank, CBC, the Bank of Canada, and Alimentation Couche-Tard. Globally, the company now supports more than 15,000 customers—including over 60% of the Fortune 500—and is on track to generate $3.7 billion in annualized revenue by July 2025, reflecting 50% year-over-year growth.
With Vancouver joining its elite roster of R&D centres worldwide—including Silicon Valley, Seattle, Berlin, Bengaluru, and Amsterdam—Databricks is reinforcing the city’s rising status as a hub for AI and enterprise software.
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