# Sr. Manager, Engineering  Configuration Platform Team

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $222,000-$300,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

At Databricks, we are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team within the Configuration Platform organization. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines deep distributed systems judgment with strong people leadership, driving multi-quarter strategy on one of Databricks' most critical stability primitives while continuing to raise the bar for how engineers across the company ship change safely.

The Configuration Platform team owns the systems that move configuration and feature flags across every Databricks service. The platform decouples code deployment from feature enablement for thousands of internal engineers, transports configuration across AWS, Azure, and GCP to every Databricks compute surface, and serves 25,000+ active flags and over 300 million evaluations per second at ~10μs p95 latency.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a team that directly shapes how thousands of Databricks engineers ship, ramp, and roll back changes every day. You will reduce the rate and blast radius of customer-impacting incidents caused by configuration and feature changes, through stronger guardrails, validation, and graduated rollout patterns. You will close the loop between 'bad change' and automated mitigation, driving company-wide MTTR down through investments in health-mediated releases, auto-rollback, and zero-downtime configuration delivery.

You will evolve the Configuration Platform user experience into a frictionless, opinionated set of surfaces (UI, CLI, agentic) where engineers author, review, and roll out changes safely without thinking about the internals. You will grow the team into a Staff and Principal attracting org whose technical decisions shape how the company balances speed and reliability.

We are looking for someone with 5+ years of experience managing backend, infrastructure, or platform teams of roughly 7 to 15 engineers, ideally in service frameworks, feature flags, configuration systems, release safety, production reliability, or other internal platforms. You should have a strong distributed systems and infrastructure background, including Java/Scala services, RPC and routing layers, configuration systems, Kubernetes-based microservices, and multi-cloud or multi-region deployments.

You should be comfortable staying close to the code, leading design reviews, and contributing technically alongside the team. You should have a demonstrated track record managing, growing, and retaining high-performing teams. You should be comfortable partnering with senior+ engineers on design reviews, roadmap, and cross-team execution while letting strong ICs own technical details.

Operational experience owning a high-availability platform with on-call, incident response, and measurable reliability improvements is a plus. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (Master's or higher level of education preferred) is required.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Scala
- Distributed Systems
- Infrastructure
- Platform Management
- Service Frameworks
- Feature Flags
- Configuration Systems
- Release Safety
- Production Reliability

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