Platform Engineering Lead, Configuration & Feature Flags

Databricks; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 222,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Equity options

Annual performance bonus

Job summary

Databricks in Bellevue is seeking an experienced engineering manager for the Configuration Platform team. You will lead a team to improve how changes are shipped and rolled back safely, while also enhancing user experience across tools.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience managing infrastructure teams, a strong background in distributed systems, and a focus on operational excellence. This role includes comprehensive benefits and competitive salary range between $222,000 and $300,000.

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing backend, infrastructure, or platform teams.
• Demonstrated track record managing high-performing teams.
• Hands-on EM disposition and experience with incident response.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team impacting thousands of engineers.
• Reduce rates of customer-impacting incidents through strong guardrails.
• Drive company-wide MTTR down through automated mitigation.

Skills

Management of backend teams

Distributed systems background

Operational experience with high-availability platforms

Product thinking for developers

Education

BS in Computer Science (Masters preferred)

Tools

Java/Scala

Kubernetes

Job description

Databricks in Bellevue is seeking an experienced engineering manager for the Configuration Platform team. You will lead a team to improve how changes are shipped and rolled back safely, while also enhancing user experience across tools.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience managing infrastructure teams, a strong background in distributed systems, and a focus on operational excellence. This role includes comprehensive benefits and competitive salary range between $222,000 and $300,000.