Senior Staff Engineer, Observability & Governance Platform

Databricks; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 229,000 - 314,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks in Mountain View seeks a senior technical leader to drive strategy across Query Observability, SQL Warehouse Management, and Account-Level Observability and Governance. You will set the durable architecture across these surfaces and raise the engineering bar for the team.

You will mentor engineers, partner with SQL, Unity Catalog, AI, security, and platform teams to deliver insights across the data and control planes. This role shapes agentic experiences for customers at scale.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems or governance platforms.
• Proven track record as a technical leader in multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong CS fundamentals applied to high-throughput problems.
• Experience with observability, telemetry pipelines, analytics, or data governance.
• Excellent cross-functional communication across engineering, product and infra.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent; MS/PhD a plus.
• Bonus: experience building agentic experiences using LLMs.

Responsibilities

• Establish long-term technical direction across query observability, warehouse management, and account-level governance.
• Design and lead high-impact projects on performance, reliability, and cost transparency.
• Build agentic observability and governance experiences for users and automated agents.
• Partner with Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog, AI, security, and platform teams for end-to-end visibility.
• Mentor senior engineers, set standards, and recruit top talent.

Skills

Distributed systems

Observability platforms

Governance platforms

Cross-functional leadership

Systems design

Algorithms & data structures

Communication across teams

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Observability pipelines

Query engines

Distributed tracing

Time-series storage

Large-scale logging

Job description

Databricks in Mountain View seeks a senior technical leader to drive strategy across Query Observability, SQL Warehouse Management, and Account-Level Observability and Governance. You will set the durable architecture across these surfaces and raise the engineering bar for the team.

You will mentor engineers, partner with SQL, Unity Catalog, AI, security, and platform teams to deliver insights across the data and control planes. This role shapes agentic experiences for customers at scale.