Engineering Manager - Storage

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · London, United Kingdom · Engineering

Engineering Manager for Databricks' Lakebase services, focusing on building and scaling mission-critical storage systems that host millions of customer databases. The role involves leading a team of storage and distributed systems experts, driving continuous delivery, ensuring operational excellence, and partnering with other engineering teams to evolve the platform.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive continuous delivery within a team of experts in storage technology, distributed systems and Rust.
  2. Manage the development and rollout of storage services that host millions of customer databases across dozens of regions
  3. Partner with peer engineering teams across Databricks to co-evolve Lakebase services with our global infrastructure.
  4. Lead operational excellence in 24/7 operation of our system
  5. Hire great engineers to build an outstanding team.

Skills

Required

  • Experience with building and shipping storage systems where correctness and performance are essential
  • BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
  • 2+ years of experience building and leading a team of engineers working in a related system
  • Experience with build, release and deployment infrastructure technologies such as Spinnaker, Jenkins, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bazel, etc.
  • Ability to attract, hire, and coach engineers who meet the Databricks hiring standards
  • Comfort working on cross-functional projects with the ability to deeply understand product and customer personas

Nice to have

  • Rust

What the JD emphasized

  • storage systems where correctness and performance are essential
  • building and leading a team of engineers