Databricks · 2 hours ago
Sr. Manager, Observability Platform Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$222K/yr - $300K/yr
5+ years expDatabricks is a data and AI company passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems. As the Manager of the Observability Platform team, you will lead engineers in building and scaling observability systems, guiding strategy, architecture, and execution to ensure reliability and performance of the platform at massive scale.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Lead the design and development of the next-generation observability platforms that support billions of active time series and process petabytes of logs every day
Oversee infrastructure deployed across nearly a hundred cloud regions, empowering internal engineers and customers to effectively monitor the reliability and performance of Databricks
Drive the creation of advanced troubleshooting workflows that accelerate incident diagnosis, enabling engineers to rapidly derive insights from logs, metrics, and other telemetry
Leverage Databricks’ own data intelligence platform to push the boundaries of observability, setting new standards for industry-leading incident analysis and reliability practices
Establish and uplevel monitoring and reliability best practices across Databricks engineering by developing opinionated tools and standards for structured logs, metrics, alerts, dashboards, and on-call operations
Mentor, grow, and inspire engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and strengthening the broader observability community within Databricks
Qualification
Required
5+ years experience in the performance analysis discipline. Ability to identify performance issues, root cause problems, and be able to come up with potential solutions
Ability to build strong working relationships with developers and field engineers to facilitate triaging and mitigation of performance problems
At least 3 years of experience in managing top-tier engineering teams
BS in Computer Science (Masters or higher level of education preferred)
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
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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