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DatabricksDatabricksBellevue, WA

Sr. Manager, Engineering Configuration Platform Team

Hands-on engineering manager to lead the Configuration Platform team at Databricks, overseeing distributed systems that manage feature flags and configuration across AWS, Azure, and GCP at massive scale. Requires 5+ years of platform/infrastructure team management experience and deep distributed systems expertise.

222k – 300k
On-site5+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

Impact

  • Lead a team that directly shapes how thousands of Databricks engineers ship, ramp, and roll back changes every day
  • Reduce the rate and blast radius of customer-impacting incidents caused by configuration and feature changes through stronger guardrails, validation, and graduated rollout patterns
  • Close the loop between "bad change" and automated mitigation, driving company-wide MTTR down through investments in health-mediated releases, auto-rollback, and zero-downtime configuration delivery
  • Evolve the Configuration Platform user experience into a frictionless, opinionated set of surfaces (UI, CLI, agentic) where engineers author, review, and roll out changes safely without thinking about the internals
  • Grow the team into a Staff and Principal attracting org whose technical decisions shape how the company balances speed and reliability

Requirements

  • 5+ years managing backend, infrastructure, or platform teams of roughly 7 to 15 engineers, ideally in service frameworks, feature flags, configuration systems, release safety, production reliability, or other internal platforms
  • Strong distributed systems and infrastructure background: Java/Scala services, RPC and routing layers, configuration systems, Kubernetes-based microservices, and multi-cloud or multi-region deployments
  • Hands-on EM disposition: stays close to the code, leads design reviews, and contributes technically alongside the team; comfortable leveraging AI-assisted coding tools to amplify their own and the team's output
  • Demonstrated track record managing, growing, and retaining high performing teams
  • Comfortable partnering with senior+ engineers on design reviews, roadmap, and cross-team execution while letting strong ICs own technical details
  • Operational experience owning a high-availability platform with on-call, incident response, and measurable reliability improvements
  • Demonstrated product thinking for developers: shaping opinionated UX, rollout policies, and developer workflows that make the safe path the easy path, with strong taste on the safety versus velocity tradeoff
  • BS in Computer Science (Masters or higher level of education preferred)

Skills

JavaScalaKubernetesDistributed SystemsMicroservicesRpcFeature FlagsConfiguration SystemsAWSAzureGCPRelease ManagementIncident ResponseOn-CallMulti-Cloud Deployments

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