Sr. Manager, Engineering - Identity Platform

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Berlin, Germany · Engineering

Sr. Manager, Engineering for the Identity Platform team at Databricks, responsible for building and operating highly available and scalable services that manage identities across multiple products. Focuses on hiring, developing talent, ensuring technical standards, and collaborating on roadmaps and execution.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will hire great engineers to build an outstanding team
  2. You will support engineers in their career development by providing clear feedback, as well developing engineering leaders
  3. You will ensure high technical standards by instituting processes (architecture reviews, testing) and culture (engineering excellence)
  4. You will work with engineering and product leadership to build a long-term roadmap
  5. You will coordinate execution and collaborate across teams to unblock cross-cutting projects

Skills

Required

  • Hiring and developing talent, especially leadership
  • Creating efficient processes that increase velocity and quality
  • Managing teams that build and operate high-volume distributed systems in a SaaS environment
  • 5+ years of experience with distributed systems and building services on top of containers
  • Experience scaling engineering teams from 5 to 20+
  • Team player
  • BS or higher in Computer Science, or a related field

What the JD emphasized

  • build and operate highly available and scalable services
  • manage identities across multiple products
  • highest requirements for availability, scalability and performance
  • build an outstanding team
  • develop engineering leaders
  • ensure high technical standards
  • build a long-term roadmap
  • coordinate execution and collaborate across teams
  • Great at hiring and developing talent, especially leadership
  • Great at creating efficient processes that increase velocity and quality
  • Managed teams that build and operate high-volume distributed systems in a SaaS environment
  • experience scaling engineering teams from 5 to 20+
  • Team player that will work with other departments (PM, CS) and engineering teams.