Sr. Manager, Engineering
Posted by employer 5 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 5 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 23 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 5–30 years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Engineering Manager at Databricks, the individual will oversee the development of scalable infrastructure and products that support big data and machine learning workloads. Key skills include expertise in distributed systems and experience managing engineering teams in a SaaS environment. This position is ideal for someone with a strong background in hiring and developing talent, particularly in leadership roles. Databricks emphasizes a collaborative culture, making it a fitting environment for team-oriented leaders.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 5 months ago — first seen on Joblaze May 9, 2026. Last confirmed on Databricks's careers page October 7, 2026.
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- 5–30 years of relevant experience for this Sr. Manager, Engineering role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Cloud, SaaS, distributed systems.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Databricks targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Sr. Manager, Engineering role at Databricks.
From the original posting
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At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will work with your team to build infrastructure and products for the Databricks platform at scale. We have multiple teams working on different domains.
- Resource management infrastructure powering the big data and machine learning workloads on the Databricks platform in a scalable, secure, and cloud-agnostic way
- Develop reliable, scalable services and client libraries that work with massive amounts of data on the cloud, across geographic regions and Cloud providers
- Build tools to allow Databricks engineers to operate their services across different clouds and environments
- Build services, products and infrastructure at the intersection of machine learning and distributed systems.
The impact you will have:
- Hire great engineers to build an outstanding team.
- Support engineers in their career development by providing clear feedback and develop engineering leaders.
- Ensure high technical standards by instituting processes (architecture reviews, testing) and culture (engineering excellence).
- Work with engineering and product leadership to build a long-term roadmap.
- Coordinate execution and collaborate across teams to unblock cross-cutting projects.
What we look for:
- Great at hiring and developing talent, especially leadership
- Great at creating efficient processes that increase velocity and quality
- Managed teams that build and operate high-volume distributed systems in a SaaS environment
- Have experience scaling engineering teams from 5 to 30+
- Team player who will work with other departments
- BS or higher in Computer Science, or a related field
About Databricks
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