Engineering Manager - Pipelines Engine

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · Executive Engineering - Pipeline

Engineering Manager for Databricks' Lakeflow Pipelines team, focusing on building next-generation ETL features and spearheading Agentic Data Engineering infrastructure. Responsibilities include leading a team, recruitment, implementing product vision, managing technical debt, and ensuring high-quality, reliable infrastructure services.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will lead an engineering team building the next-generation ETL features for the Databricks Lakeflow platform.
  2. You will oversee sustained recruitment of top-tier talent, and upskilling talent on the team.
  3. You will build processes to implement product vision and strategy, according to organizational goals and priorities.
  4. You will build software that is not just high quality but easy to operate.
  5. You will manage technical debt, including long-term technical architecture decisions and balance product roadmap.

Skills

Required

  • managing top-tier engineering teams
  • building data infrastructure systems
  • Apache Spark
  • database internals
  • distributed systems
  • performance optimization
  • working with product management
  • understanding customer needs
  • building high quality and reliable infrastructure services
  • testing
  • quality
  • Service Level Agreements
  • attracting, hiring and coaching engineers
  • up-leveling teams

Nice to have

  • passion for database systems
  • passion for storage systems
  • passion for distributed systems
  • passion for performance optimization

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum 3 years of experience in managing top-tier engineering teams
  • 5+ years experience building data infrastructure systems such as Apache Spark™ or database internals.
  • Experience building and managing teams in a complex technical domain, such as on distributed data systems or database internals.