Databricks · 2 weeks ago
Tech Lead - Platform Monitoring Engineer
Plano, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$122K/yr - $170K/yr
5+ years expDatabricks is a data and AI company focused on empowering data teams to solve complex problems. They are seeking a Senior Platform Monitoring Engineer to lead incident investigations, design observability solutions, and enhance platform stability.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Lead platform incident investigation, coordinating cross-functional teams through rapid detection, mitigation, and resolution to minimize customer impact
Conduct thorough post-incident root cause analysis across infrastructure, services, and cloud providers to identify systemic patterns and prevent future occurrences
Design and implement customer-focused alerting pipelines and end-to-end observability workflows to enhance detection coverage and reduce mean time to detection
Build automation tools, establish reusable monitoring patterns, and resolve reliability gaps that directly impact customer experience
Qualification
Required
Minimum of 5 years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, Production Engineer, or similar role
Production-level experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) and proficiency in container and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, etc. Ability to architect monitoring solutions that correlate metrics, logs, and traces
Strong proficiency in Python or similar languages with the ability to build production-quality automation tools
Experience owning critical phases of the incident lifecycle from detection through resolution and post-mortem analysis in demanding production environments
BS or Master's, or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or related Engineering field
Benefits
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Company
Databricks
Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$25.81BKey Investors
Counterpoint GlobalFranklin TempletonAndreessen Horowitz
2025-12-16Series Unknown· $4B
2025-09-08Series Unknown· $1B
2025-01-13Debt Financing· $5.25B
Leadership Team
Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-founder
David Conte
Chief Financial Officer
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