# Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead, Lakebase Manager

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $182k – $247k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Go, Rust, Postgres, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, sli/slo, high availability, on-call, Incident Response, architecture design
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Technical lead building and operating the Lakebase Manager control plane for managed Postgres on the lakehouse. Own architecture, reliability (SLIs/SLOs, HA/failover), cross-team initiatives, and mentor the team as a hands-on IC.

## Job Description

## Impact
- Set the technical direction for LBM and own the quality and reliability of what the team ships, driving execution on the hardest, highest-risk parts.
- Drive architecture and design, and write code on the hardest parts of your team's projects.
- Set and uphold high technical standards through architecture reviews, testing, and a culture of engineering excellence.
- Raise the technical bar of the team: mentor engineers, drive rigorous design and code review, and grow their distributed-systems and design skills.
- Define SLIs, meet SLOs, and drive long-term reliability improvements across the database lifecycle.
- Lead cross-team initiatives across the Lakebase stack: align with partner teams on dependencies and unblock cross-cutting projects.
- Partner with engineering and product leadership to shape and deliver a long-term technical roadmap.

## Requirements
- 8+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, including the processes around testing, monitoring, and SLIs/SLOs.
- A track record of technical leadership as an individual contributor: setting architecture and direction for a team's projects through influence, without formal management authority.
- Strong hands-on depth: you still design systems and write production code, and can go deep on architecture for large-scale distributed services.
- Experience operating reliability-critical, highly available services (on-call, incident response, HA/failover).
- Comfortable working toward a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables, and balancing short-term delivery against long-term stability.
- Ability to align multiple stakeholders on competing priorities.
- Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
- Proficiency in Go, Rust, or a similar systems language.
- BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Kubernetes.

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