# Engineering Manager, App Traffic

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $190k – $238k/yr
**Experience:** 9+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Infrastructure, Service Mesh, Routing, Control Planes, Reliability, Scalability, Performance, AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Leads and develops the App Traffic engineering team building reliable, scalable service-mesh and networking infrastructure across multiple clouds. Requires 9+ years of software engineering experience, including engineering leadership and distributed-systems or infrastructure expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and develop a high-performing team responsible for application traffic infrastructure.
- Drive the design and evolution of highly available distributed systems across multiple clouds and regions.
- Partner with senior and staff engineers on architecture involving routing, control planes, reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
- Lead large, ambiguous projects with dependencies across multiple engineering teams.
- Establish goals, milestones, ownership boundaries, and operating mechanisms for predictable execution.
- Balance immediate product and operational priorities with longer-term investments in architecture, reliability, and engineering velocity.
- Build partnerships with infrastructure and application teams.
- Recruit exceptional engineers and support the growth and development of engineers at all levels.
- Foster technical excellence, ownership, operational rigor, and continuous improvement.

## Requirements
- 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years of engineering leadership experience.
- Experience managing engineering teams working on distributed systems, networking infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, or platform infrastructure.
- Strong technical judgment and ability to engage deeply with senior engineers on complex systems architecture.
- Track record leading large, ambiguous, cross-functional engineering initiatives.
- Strong understanding of reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence in production systems.
- Experience developing senior engineers and building high-performing teams.
- Ability to influence and align stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

## Compensation
- Annual salary range: $190,000–$237,500 USD.
- Total compensation may also include an annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

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