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Engineering Manager - Compute Platform

Databricks
Databricks Salary
Mountain View, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/18/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/4/2025

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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 tackle 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.

About the Team

If you are looking for an unparalleled opportunity to build the next generation data processing platform, serving modern data engineering and AI use cases over millions of VMs launched daily, and learn how to do this at scale with reliability, efficiency, and industry-leading customer experience - you have come to the right place.

The Compute Platform team builds and manages the core systems powering Databricks, allowing it to seamlessly scale and run across various geographic regions / clouds, and making Databricks the go-to product for big data processing in the cloud.

As an Engineering Manager on the Compute Platform team at Databricks, you will lead your team to build an available, scalable and reliable platform that is necessary to the business. You will be responsible for delivery of products and features shipped by your team. You will work with engineers and customers to help ensure that we continue to build excellent products with new and improved features.

We manage some of the largest scale software systems on the planet. The teams lead the Cloud revolution, building scalable multi cloud infrastructure and distributed systems to launch millions of virtual machines a day, generating petabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data every day. At our scale, we observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above. You will report to the Senior Manager of the Compute team.

The impact you will have :

  • Hire great engineers to build an outstanding team
  • Support engineers in their career development by providing clear feedback and developing 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
  • Collaborate with leading cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) to shape their product roadmaps, driving the development of scalable and reliable integrations that align with organizational goals.

What we look for :

  • 3 years of experience building distributed infrastructure operating at cloud scale
  • Managed teams that build and operate high-volume distributed systems in a SaaS environment
  • Great at hiring and developing talent, especially leadership
  • Great at creating efficient processes that increase velocity and quality
  • Have experience scaling engineering teams from 5 to 20
  • Team player that will work with other departments (Product, Sales, Support)
  • BS or higher in Computer Science, or a related field
  • Pay Range Transparency

    Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks utilizes the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

    Zone 1 Pay Range

    192,000-$260,000 USD

    About Databricks

    Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide - including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 - rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

    Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https : / / www.mybenefitsnow.com / databricks.

    Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

    At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

    Compliance

    If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

    Salary : $192,000 - $260,000

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