Senior Engineering Manager - Backend

About the role

Databricks is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Backend team that builds scalable, secure, cloud‑agnostic infrastructure for big data and machine learning workloads. You will guide a group of engineers in designing and operating services that run across multiple clouds and geographic regions.

Key responsibilities

• Hire, mentor, and grow a high‑performing engineering team.
• Provide clear feedback, career development, and foster engineering leadership.
• Establish and enforce technical standards through architecture reviews, testing, and a culture of engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to define long‑term roadmaps.
• Coordinate cross‑team execution to unblock projects that span multiple services.

Required profile

• 12+ years of experience building large‑scale distributed systems with strong focus on testing, monitoring, and SLAs.
• Proven track record as a software engineering leader, scaling teams from the ground up.
• Experience managing strong software engineers and partnering with product, sales, and customers.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Required skills

• Large‑scale distributed systems.
• Cloud‑agnostic infrastructure (multiple cloud providers).
• Software engineering best practices (architecture, testing, monitoring).