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DatabricksDatabricksMountain View, CA

Engineering Manager, Foundation Model Inference

Lead and grow a team of infrastructure engineers building Databricks' Foundation Model Inference and APIs for serving partner and self-hosted LLMs at scale. Shape roadmaps for real-time, provisioned, and batch inference while maintaining high reliability, operational excellence, and technical quality.

190k – 261k/yr
On-site5+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

Impact You Will Have

  • Lead and grow a team of talented, product-minded infrastructure Engineers working on Databricks Foundation Model Inference and Foundation Model API. The team owns the systems powering large-scale inference workloads for customers through partner models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) and self-hosted models (Qwen, GPT-OSS, Llama).
  • Help shape the roadmap for products spanning real-time inference, provisioned throughput, and batch inference use cases.
  • Partner closely with product and engineering leadership to deliver the right capabilities with strong reliability, quality, and service health.
  • Build an inclusive, high-performing team that attracts, develops, and retains exceptional engineers.
  • Maintain a deep understanding of your team’s technical area and uphold a strong bar for architecture, implementation quality, and operational excellence.

What We Look For

  • Experience managing and growing high-performing software engineering teams.
  • Strong technical judgment in distributed systems, platform infrastructure, AI/ML infrastructure, or large-scale backend services, with the ability to maintain quality even in areas you have not worked on personally.
  • A track record of delivering complex, multi-quarter engineering initiatives with high quality and predictable execution.
  • Experience partnering effectively with product management and peer engineering teams to translate customer and business needs into roadmaps and shipped outcomes.
  • Operational rigor, including experience with service health, incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement.
  • Excellent communication, coaching, and hiring skills.
  • BS in Computer Science or related field.

Skills

Distributed Systemsai/ml infrastructurelarge-scale backend servicesRoadmappingIncident ResponsepostmortemsTeam ManagementhiringCoaching
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