# Sr. Manager, Engineering Configuration Platform Team

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $222k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Java, Scala, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Microservices, Rpc, Feature Flags, Configuration Systems, AWS, Azure, GCP, Release Management, Incident Response, On-Call, Multi-Cloud Deployments
**Posted:** 2026-05-28

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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)

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