Databricks
Sr. Manager, Engineering Configuration Platform Team
$222K–$300K
Bellevue, Washington · Manager · Full-time · Posted May 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years managing teams of roughly 7 to 15 engineers.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science; Master’s or higher preferred.
About the job
Leads a team building and operating Databricks’ configuration and feature-flag platform, improving safe releases, reliability, and developer workflows.
What you'll do
- Set multi-quarter direction for configuration platform systems and lead a team serving engineers across Databricks.
- Reduce incidents and MTTR through stronger rollout guardrails, health-mediated releases, auto-rollback, and zero-downtime configuration delivery.
- Develop safer, more frictionless developer experiences for authoring, reviewing, and rolling out changes.
What they ask for
- 5+ years managing backend, infrastructure, or platform teams of roughly 7 to 15 engineers.
- 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.
- Track record managing, growing, and retaining high-performing teams; hands-on technical leadership and experience owning a high-availability platform, on-call, and incident response.
- BS in Computer Science.
Nice to have
- Experience in service frameworks, feature flags, configuration systems, release safety, production reliability, or other internal platforms.
- Master’s or higher level of education.
Pay
$222,000 — $300,000 USD base salary
Tools
Java/Scala, RPC, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP
AI focus
Use AI-assisted coding tools to amplify personal and team output; evolve developer surfaces to include agentic workflows.
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