Senior Engineering Manager for Workspace Platform
Leads engineering team building unified Workspace Platform infrastructure for Databricks products like content discovery and collaborative editing. Requires 15+ years software engineering, 5+ years management, and expertise in distributed systems and cloud platforms.
About the job
The impact you will have:
- Strategy & Vision: Define and drive the technical strategy for the Workspace Platform, including building over 16 shared capabilities that underpin the entire Databricks experience.
- Execution Ownership: Own the roadmap, execution, and delivery for the platform, ensuring all team deliverables meet the highest standards of quality and timeliness.
- Engineering Excellence: Establish and enforce team best practices for engineering excellence, including design reviews, code quality, testing strategies, and performance optimizations for high-volume distributed systems.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with teams across the organization, including those developing vertical product experiences (Lakehouse Platform, SQL Warehouse, AI/BI Dashboards, UC Platform) and core infrastructure, to ensure seamless integration and innovation.
What we look for:
- Experience: 15+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record of technical leadership and impact.
- Management: 5+ years of engineering management experience, including experience managing other managers.
- Scaling: Proven experience scaling engineering teams from 10 to 30+ engineers.
- Platform Expertise: Experience leading platform teams and backend developers in a SaaS environment.
- Technical Depth:
- Experience designing and building scalable distributed systems.
- Familiarity with building services on top of containerization technologies.
- Expertise in distributed systems, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and modern web application architectures.
- Collaboration: Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams to align technical strategy with core company growth objectives.
- Passion: A passion for building and scaling robust, high-performance platforms.
Skills
Distributed Systems, AWS, Azure, GCP, Containerization, Kubernetes, SaaS Platforms, Scalable Systems, Backend Development, Cloud Platforms
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