Senior Engineering Manager, Configuration Platform

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

Job summary

Databricks is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Configuration Platform team in Bellevue, Washington. In this hands-on leadership role, you will drive critical stability and efficiency across features and deployments while improving the overall safety of changes made by thousands of engineers.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in distributed systems, experience managing backend teams, and the ability to create a frictionless user experience for engineers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing infrastructure or platform teams of 7 to 15 engineers.
• Strong understanding of configuration systems and release safety.
• Proven track record in managing high performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team shaping how Databricks engineers ship changes.
• Reduce the rate of customer-impacting incidents with stronger guardrails.
• Drive improvements in health-mediated releases and auto-rollback.

Skills

Managing backend teams

Strong distributed systems background

Operational experience with high-availability platforms

Partnering on design reviews

Education

BS in Computer Science (Masters preferred)

Tools

Java

Scala

Kubernetes

Job description

Databricks is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Configuration Platform team in Bellevue, Washington. In this hands-on leadership role, you will drive critical stability and efficiency across features and deployments while improving the overall safety of changes made by thousands of engineers.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in distributed systems, experience managing backend teams, and the ability to create a frictionless user experience for engineers.