Databricks · 10 hours ago
Sr. Manager, Engineering - Unity Catalog Infra
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$217K/yr - $288K/yr
5+ years expDatabricks is a data and AI company that enables data teams to solve complex problems through an advanced data and AI infrastructure platform. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead the Unity Catalog Infra teams to develop a highly scalable and performant foundation layer for the data governance platform, ensuring high-quality infrastructure services and effective team collaboration.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Technical Leadership: You will lead and guide the team in building a highly scalable, performant, and extensible storage foundation for our governance platform. You will make critical long-term technical architecture decisions and balance the product roadmap
Operational Excellence: You will build software that is not just high quality but easy to operate. You will ensure the team delivers high-quality, reliable infrastructure services with robust SLAs, testing, and monitoring
Team Development: You will oversee sustained recruitment of top-tier talent, fostering a well-organized and synergistic team structure, and collaborating effectively with internal and external stakeholders
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product and infrastructure teams to align strategy, execution, and roadmap in alignment with organizational goals and priorities
Qualification
Required
5+ years experience building database systems, storage systems, data platforms, distributed systems, or large-scale backend systems
At least 3 years of experience in managing top-tier engineering teams
BS in Computer Science
Passion for building highly scalable and reliable infrastructure
Experience scaling engineering teams from 5 to 20+
Define and meet SLOs for highly-available systems
Expertise in attracting, hiring and coaching engineers, who will meet the Databricks hiring standards
Experience up-leveling teams via hiring top-notch talent and growing existing team members
Ensure the team builds high quality and reliable infrastructure services
Previous experience leading teams in a complex technical domain, such as on distributed data systems or large-scale data platforms
Preferred
Masters or higher level of education preferred
Benefits
Eligibility for 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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