Databricks
Engineering Manager - Databricks SQL Control Plane
$190K–$261K
Mountain View, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Mar 20, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in database systems, data processing, or related domains.
About the job
Leads a team developing and operating the next-generation cloud-native, multi-tenant control plane for Databricks SQL data warehousing.
What you'll do
- Lead, hire, coach, and grow a high-performing engineering team.
- Guide technical, product, and design decisions; define the team’s product and engineering roadmap.
- Manage and operate highly available cloud services, including setting and meeting SLOs and partnering on planning and prioritization.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in database systems, data processing, or related domains.
- Experience building highly available cloud services on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience building, growing, and managing high-performance teams.
- Experience defining and meeting SLOs for highly available systems; ability to attract and hire engineers to Databricks hiring standards.
Nice to have
- Experience working with Rust.
Pay
USD 190,000–261,250 base salary (Zone 1)
Tools
AWS, GCP, Azure, Rust
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