# Senior Engineering Manager - Backend

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Testing, Monitoring, Service Level Agreements, Client Libraries
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> Leads backend engineering teams building scalable, secure, cloud-agnostic infrastructure and services for data and machine learning workloads. The role requires 12+ years of distributed-systems experience, extensive engineering leadership, and a Computer Science or related degree.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Hire great engineers to build an outstanding team.
- Support engineers in their career development by providing clear feedback and developing engineering leaders.
- Ensure high technical standards through processes such as architecture reviews and testing, and through a culture of engineering excellence.
- Work with engineering and product leadership to build a long-term roadmap.
- Coordinate execution and collaborate across teams to unblock cross-cutting projects.
- Build infrastructure and products for the Databricks platform at scale, including resource management infrastructure, cloud services, client libraries, multi-cloud operations tools, and services at the intersection of machine learning and distributed systems.

## Requirements
- 12+ years of extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems and related processes such as testing, monitoring, and SLAs.
- Extensive experience as a software engineering leader building and scaling software engineering teams from the ground up.
- Extensive experience managing a team of strong software engineers.
- Experience partnering with product managers, sales, and customers to develop innovative features and products.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.

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