Description
Databricks is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the App Traffic team, responsible for critical networking infrastructure that powers communication across the Databricks platform.
The team builds and operates Databricks' unified service mesh, including ingress, service discovery, service-to-service communication, traffic management, and intelligent routing across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
As the Engineering Manager for App Traffic, you will lead a team of strong infrastructure engineers, shape the technical roadmap, and drive execution across complex, cross-functional initiatives.
The Impact You Will Have:
- Lead, grow, and develop a high-performing team of engineers responsible for Databricks' application traffic infrastructure.
- Drive the design and evolution of highly available distributed systems operating across multiple clouds and regions.
- Partner with senior and staff engineers on architectural decisions involving routing, control planes, reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
- Lead large, ambiguous projects with dependencies across multiple engineering teams.
- Establish clear goals, milestones, ownership boundaries, and operating mechanisms that enable predictable execution.
- Balance immediate product and operational priorities with longer-term investments in architecture, reliability, and engineering velocity.
- Build strong partnerships with infrastructure and application teams.
- Recruit exceptional engineers and support the growth and development of engineers at all levels.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, operational rigor, and continuous improvement.
What We Look For:
- 9+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with 2+ years of engineering leadership experience in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Experience managing engineering teams working on distributed systems, networking infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, or platform infrastructure.
- Strong technical judgment and the ability to engage deeply with senior engineers on complex systems architecture.
- A track record of successfully 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.
Pay Range Transparency: Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location.
Local Pay Range: $190,000-$237,500 USD