Databricks
Sr. Manager, Engineering - Search
$222K–$300K
Mountain View, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Apr 15, 2025
- Experience
- 5+ years in search, database systems, or AI/ML infrastructure.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science; Master’s or PhD preferred.
About the job
Leads engineering for Databricks’ next-generation Search product, spanning vector, keyword, and hybrid search services and search quality.
What you'll do
- Lead engineers building and operating cloud-native Search services; shape the long-term product and engineering strategy.
- Drive improvements to search relevance, latency, and cost efficiency, partnering with product and research on ranking and evaluation.
- Manage and mentor engineers and collaborate across teams to support Search for AI and data applications.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in search, database systems, or AI/ML infrastructure.
- Track record building and scaling highly available cloud services; experience defining and meeting SLOs for distributed production systems.
- Leadership experience building, growing, and managing engineering teams.
- Solid understanding of search and indexing systems, such as Elasticsearch, Lucene, or vector databases.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with database internals or large-scale data processing systems.
- Master’s or PhD.
Pay
$222,000 — $300,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Elasticsearch, Lucene, vector databases
AI focus
Leads Search capabilities that support AI applications, including vector search, RAG, AI assistants, and recommendation systems.
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