Sr Platform Monitoring Engineer

Location: United States

Company

Databricks builds and operates a data and AI infrastructure platform used by organizations worldwide to develop and scale data, AI, analytics, and agent applications.

What you will do

• Lead platform incident investigations and coordinate cross-functional teams through detection, mitigation, and resolution.
• Conduct root cause analyses across infrastructure, services, and cloud providers, identifying systemic patterns and prevention opportunities.
• Design and implement customer-focused alerting pipelines and end-to-end observability workflows.
• Build automation tools, reusable monitoring patterns, and solutions for platform reliability gaps.
• Mentor junior engineers on observability patterns, alert design, and service health metrics.
• Participate in the on-call rotation.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, Production Engineer, or in a similar role.
• Production experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, plus Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, or PagerDuty.
• Ability to architect solutions that correlate metrics, logs, and traces.
• Strong Python or similar-language skills for building production-quality automation tools.
• BS, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering field.

Culture & Benefits

• Customer-obsessed engineering culture focused on solving complex technical challenges.
• Work on a large-scale data and AI infrastructure platform.
• Comprehensive employee benefits and perks, with details varying by region.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity.