Senior Manager, Infrastructure Data Science

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Mountain View, CA · Engineering

Senior Manager role focused on leading a team of data scientists to optimize Databricks' infrastructure using data science and machine learning. The role involves capacity planning, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and improving infrastructure efficiency to reduce costs and enhance customer experience. It requires strong management experience and a background in data science/ML within a cloud environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Thought leadership and strategic guidance on infrastructure planning, balancing current needs with future growth projections to ensure scalability and cost-effectiveness.
  2. Promote a data-driven approach to infrastructure decisions, influencing stakeholders across engineering, and support to leverage data science insights for high-impact, aligned strategies.
  3. Implement data-driven solutions to identify, predict, and mitigate infrastructure risks and failures, reducing downtime and improving system reliability and performance, directly impacting end-user satisfaction and operational continuity.
  4. Spearhead analyses to improve resource utilization efficiency, identifying and eliminating inefficiencies across infrastructure usage, resulting in cost savings and optimized performance.
  5. Establish data frameworks that empower support teams to troubleshoot and resolve product issues faster, decreasing response times and enhancing customer experience and support quality.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of infrastructure data science, machine learning, advanced analytics experience in high velocity, high-growth companies
  • 5+ years of management experience hiring and developing teams
  • Experience developing data science, analytics, and machine learning and AI products and capabilities in a cloud environment
  • Knowledge of statistics and rigorous analytical techniques
  • Experience with data visualization tools, knowledge of data engineering, data modeling, and big data technologies
  • Leadership skills and experience to lead across functional and organizational lines
  • Strong communication skills to explain and evangelize analytics and data science to executives and the senior management team
  • MS or Ph.D. in quantitative fields (Statistics, Math, CS or Engineering)

Nice to have

  • Bias to action and passion for delivering high-quality data solutions
  • A passion for problem-solving and comfort with ambiguity

What the JD emphasized

  • infrastructure data science
  • machine learning
  • advanced analytics
  • data science
  • machine learning and AI products and capabilities

Other signals

  • infrastructure efficiency
  • performance optimization
  • reliability engineering
  • capacity planning