Senior Production Engineer (Realtime Products)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States

Company

Databricks is a data and AI company providing a unified platform for building and scaling data, analytics, and AI applications.

What you will do

• Build advanced monitoring and detection capabilities for realtime products, including Lakebase, Neon, and Model Serving.
• Develop observable automation for debugging and incident mitigation.
• Improve service reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation and lead production incident response.
• Perform root-cause analysis and implement durable corrective actions.
• Partner with Product Engineering, Security, Support, infrastructure teams, and customer infrastructure teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Production Engineering, CRE, SRE, infrastructure engineering, backend software engineering, or a related field.
• Experience monitoring and alerting complex stateful systems using workload alerting, anomaly detection, and probing.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, managed databases, or distributed systems.
• Experience with incident management and on-call rotations for critical infrastructure.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, Java, Scala, or a similar language.
• Proficiency with infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code, plus experience using AI for production and operational challenges.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with Lakebase or Neon.
• Experience with Kubernetes or Terraform.
• Experience building internal platforms, operational tooling, or developer productivity systems.
• BS degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Benefits and perks are provided according to the employee's region.
• Inclusive hiring practices and a commitment to diversity and equal employment opportunity.
• Work involves collaboration across engineering, security, support, infrastructure, and customer teams.