Databricks
Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager - Reliability
$190K–$256K
Mountain View, California +2 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Mar 2, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California - Experience
- 10+ years; no stated alternative.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; advanced degree preferred.
About the job
Leads strategy and delivery of cross-company reliability programs that improve Databricks’ multi-cloud infrastructure and operational excellence.
What you'll do
- Define reliability strategy and multi-quarter roadmaps with senior engineering leaders, aligning priorities across teams.
- Own end-to-end execution of critical programs, including planning, risk and dependency management, trade-offs, and delivery.
- Establish reliability practices, governance, metrics, and processes to improve resilience, incident preparedness, and operational efficiency.
What they ask for
- 10+ years managing and delivering large-scale technical programs in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, SRE, or platform engineering.
- 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 strong understanding of infrastructure, distributed systems, or SRE practices.
- Experience partnering with senior engineering leaders and delivering complex, multi-team programs across multiple clouds and/or large-scale cloud-native services.
Nice to have
- Previous engineering or SRE experience; background in distributed systems, SRE, platform infrastructure, or cloud services.
- Experience with compute fleets, container orchestration, autoscaling, control-plane architecture, reliability methodologies, or Jira.
Pay
$189,800 — $256,160 USD (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Azure, GCP, Jira
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