# Engineering Manager - Databricks SQL Control Plane

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $190k – $261k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Databricks Sql, AWS, GCP, Azure, Rust, Cloud Native, Database Systems, SLOs, Data Warehousing, Multi-Tenancy
**Posted:** 2026-03-20

> Engineering Manager leading development of next-generation low-latency, multi-tenant Databricks SQL Control Plane. Requires 5+ years in database systems, building highly available cloud services on AWS/GCP/Azure, and managing high-performance engineering teams.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities

- Leading a team of talented software engineers to build the next-generation low-latency, multi-tenanted, cloud native data warehousing system
- Growing the team by hiring strong engineering talent
- Leading and participating in technical, product and design discussions relating to cloud native database systems
- Managing and operating a highly available service in the cloud
- Growing leaders on the team by providing coaching, mentorship and growth opportunities
- Playing a key role in defining the product and engineering roadmap for the team
- Partnering with other engineering and product leaders on planning, prioritization and staffing
- Creating a culture of excellence on the team while leading with empathy

## What we look for

- 5+ years experience working in database systems, data processing or related domains
- Experience building highly available cloud services on **AWS**, **GCP** or **Azure**
- Building, growing and managing high performance teams
- Experience defining and meeting SLOs for highly available systems
- Ability to attract and hire engineers who meet the Databricks hiring standards
- Comfort working cross functionality with product management and partners to build products that drive user growth

## Preferred

- Experience working **Rust**

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