Engineering Manager (Compute Infra)

Location: Mountain View, California, or San Francisco, California, United States

Salary: $190,000–$253,750 USD per year

Company

Databricks builds a unified Data and AI Platform used by organizations worldwide to develop and scale data, analytics, AI applications, and agents.

What you will do

• Own and evolve the compute platform supporting Databricks data, AI, and stateful workloads.
• Lead, hire, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team.
• Raise technical and operational standards through design practices, testing, monitoring, and reliability engineering.
• Define long-term infrastructure strategy and roadmaps with engineering and product leadership.
• Lead cross-team initiatives spanning product and infrastructure areas.
• Influence architectural decisions beyond the immediate team.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing teams.
• Strong practices in testing, monitoring, and reliability.
• Experience collaborating with engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Experience scaling teams and systems through rapid growth.
• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Experience with containerized environments and Kubernetes.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive employee benefits and region-specific perks.
• Annual performance bonus and equity eligibility may be included in the compensation package.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal employment opportunity and diversity.