Senior Engineering Manager Agentic Service Platform

Databricks is a data and AI platform that lets organizations build analytics, AI agents, and applications on a unified, governed lakehouse.

160 Spear Street, Suite 1300, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States
About Databricks

Data engineers, analysts, and AI teams use Databricks to process large datasets, build reliable pipelines, and train models on a single governed platform. Users can run SQL analytics, serve ML predictions in real time, and deploy AI agents grounded in enterprise data. Its open lakehouse architecture provides consistent security and governance across analytical and operational workloads.

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About the Role

You will lead and scale engineers and managers building service frameworks, RPC infrastructure, core libraries, request-context propagation, and overload protection. You will set the long-term technical strategy, deliver complex initiatives, develop leaders, and align partner organizations around the platform roadmap.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, service frameworks, or platform infrastructure
  • 4+ years of engineering management experience
  • Technical judgment in large-scale distributed systems
  • Understanding of customer interactions with platform products across multiple components
  • Experience attracting, hiring, retaining, coaching, and mentoring technical talent
  • Performance management and promotion experience
  • Experience building and operating cloud platforms or ability to learn SaaS concepts

Responsibilities

  • Lead and scale engineers and managers building core service platform infrastructure
  • Set the multi-year technical strategy and organizational roadmap
  • Ensure predictable, high-quality delivery of strategic initiatives
  • Coach senior engineers and line managers
  • Align product and engineering leadership across partner organizations