Engineering Manager - App Frameworks

Impact

• Lead and scale a multi-faceted team of talented engineers, which may include line managers and senior/staff ICs, building core application platform infrastructure used by every service at Databricks.
• Own and set the multi-year technical strategy and organizational roadmap for a critical, cross-cutting domain within the App Framework.
• Drive and ensure the predictable, high-quality delivery of complex, multi-quarter/multi-year strategic initiatives, often spanning multiple teams and product areas.
• Hire great engineers to build an outstanding team.
• Champion the career development and growth of engineers and managers, including coaching senior (L5/L6) ICs and guiding line managers.
• Ensure high technical standards by instituting processes and a culture of engineering excellence.
• Proactively align and influence product and engineering leadership across multiple partner organizations to ensure the long-term success of the platform.

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, service frameworks, or platform infrastructure.
• 4+ years of engineering management experience leading strong technical teams.
• A track record of high technical judgment (equivalent to a Staff Engineer) in building and operating large-scale distributed systems, and a deep understanding of customer interactions with platform products across multiple components.
• Demonstrated success in attracting, hiring, and retaining top-tier talent (L3-L5) and experience coaching and mentoring line managers or senior/staff level ICs (L5/L6). Proven ability to handle complex performance management and promotion cases.
• Existing experience building and running cloud platforms, or demonstrated ability to quickly learn new concepts in the SaaS space.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with multi-language service and RPC frameworks, core libraries, request context propagation, overload protection, and platform capability abstractions.