Databricks
Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead, Lakebase Manager (LBM)
$182K–$247K
Bellevue, Washington +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 17, 2026
- Location
- Bellevue, Washington
Seattle, Washington - Experience
- 8+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Education
- BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.
About the job
Lead the technical direction and hands-on development of Lakebase Manager, the control plane managing database lifecycle and reliability across the Lakebase product.
What you'll do
- Set architecture and technical direction, and write production code for the hardest project areas.
- Define SLIs, meet SLOs, and improve reliability across the database lifecycle.
- Mentor engineers and lead cross-team initiatives and technical reviews.
What they ask for
- 8+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, including testing, monitoring, and SLIs/SLOs.
- Technical leadership as an individual contributor, setting architecture and direction without formal management authority.
- Experience operating reliability-critical, highly available services, including on-call, incident response, and HA/failover.
- Proficiency in Go, Rust, or a similar systems language; BS (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field.
Nice to have
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Kubernetes.
Pay
$182,400 — $247,000 USD (salary range)
Tools
Go, Rust, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes
AI focus
The role builds Lakebase, a managed Postgres layer for application workloads that combine operational data, analytics, and AI; no specific AI development duties are stated.
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