Databricks
Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager - Reliability
$180K–$243K
Bellevue, Washington +2 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Mar 2, 2026
- Location
- Bellevue, Washington
Seattle, Washington
San Francisco, California - Experience
- 10+ years; no alternative stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; advanced degree preferred.
About the job
Leads cross-company reliability strategy and multi-quarter programs to improve the reliability, performance, and operational excellence of Databricks’ multi-cloud infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Define reliability roadmaps with senior engineering leaders and align priorities across teams.
- Own end-to-end execution of critical reliability programs, including planning, risk and dependency management, and delivery.
- Scale reliability practices, governance, metrics, and processes across engineering teams.
What they ask for
- 10+ years managing and delivering large-scale technical programs in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, SRE, or platform engineering environments.
- Experience developing infrastructure at two or more hyperscale cloud providers, with knowledge of cloud primitives, multi-AZ/region architecture, and control plane/data plane patterns.
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale reliability programs and partnering with senior engineering leadership on strategy and multi-team initiatives.
- Ability to translate ambiguous goals into actionable plans and manage complex dependencies, technical risks, and multi-quarter timelines.
Nice to have
- Previous engineering or SRE experience; background in distributed systems engineering, SRE, platform infrastructure, or cloud services.
- Experience with compute fleets, container orchestration, autoscaling, control-plane architecture, reliability methodologies, or Jira.
Pay
$180,200 USD — $243,340 USD (salary range)
Tools
AWS, Azure, GCP, Jira
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