# Senior Engineering Manager for Workspace Platform

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $217k – $312k/yr
**Experience:** 15+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, AWS, Azure, GCP, Containerization, Kubernetes, SaaS Platforms, Scalable Systems, Backend Development, Cloud Platforms
**Posted:** 2026-02-01

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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