Databricks · 2 days ago
Senior Engineering Manager for Workspace Platform
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$217K/yr - $312K/yr
15+ years expDatabricks is a leading data and AI company dedicated to enabling data teams to tackle significant challenges. As a Senior Engineering Manager on the Workspace Platform team, you will lead the development of infrastructure that powers essential customer-facing capabilities across multiple products, guiding a team of software engineers to enhance the Databricks Workspace experience.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Define and drive the technical strategy for the Workspace Platform, including building over 16 shared capabilities that underpin the entire Databricks experience
Own the roadmap, execution, and delivery for the platform, ensuring all team deliverables meet the highest standards of quality and timeliness
Establish and enforce team best practices for engineering excellence, including design reviews, code quality, testing strategies, and performance optimizations for high-volume distributed systems
Partner closely with teams across the organization, including those developing vertical product experiences (Lakehouse Platform, SQL Warehouse, AI/BI Dashboards, UC Platform) and core infrastructure, to ensure seamless integration and innovation
Qualification
Required
15+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record of technical leadership and impact
5+ years of engineering management experience, including experience managing other managers
Proven experience scaling engineering teams from 10 to 30+ engineers
Experience leading platform teams and backend developers in a SaaS environment
Experience designing and building scalable distributed systems
Familiarity with building services on top of containerization technologies
Expertise in distributed systems, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and modern web application architectures
Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams to align technical strategy with core company growth objectives
A passion for building and scaling robust, high-performance platforms
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
H1B Sponsorship
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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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