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Senior Manager, Infrastructure Data Science

Databricks
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San Francisco, CA$228.6k - $314.3kfull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior leadership role leading a team of data scientists to shape Databricks infrastructure through data science, focusing on capacity planning, performance optimization, reliability engineering, infrastructure efficiency, and customer experience.

Responsibilities

  • Thought leadership and strategic guidance on infrastructure planning, balancing current needs with future growth projections to ensure scalability and cost-effectiveness.
  • Promote a data-driven approach to infrastructure decisions, influencing stakeholders across engineering, and support to leverage data science insights for high-impact, aligned strategies.
  • Implement data-driven solutions to identify, predict, and mitigate infrastructure risks and failures, reducing downtime and improving system reliability and performance, directly impacting end-user satisfaction and operational continuity.
  • Spearhead analyses to improve resource utilization efficiency, identifying and eliminating inefficiencies across infrastructure usage, resulting in cost savings and optimized performance.
  • Establish data frameworks that empower support teams to troubleshoot and resolve product issues faster, decreasing response times and enhancing customer experience and support quality.
  • Mentor and manage a team of data scientists, instilling best practices in data science, engineering, and fostering a collaborative environment focused on innovative, scalable infrastructure solutions.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of infrastructure data science, machine learning, advanced analytics experience in high velocity, high-growth companies
  • 5+ years of management experience hiring and developing teams
  • Experience developing data science, analytics, and machine learning and AI products and capabilities in a cloud environment
  • Knowledge of statistics and rigorous analytical techniques
  • Experience with data visualization tools, knowledge of data engineering, data modeling, and big data technologies
  • Leadership skills and experience to lead across functional and organizational lines
  • Strong communication skills to explain and evangelize analytics and data science to executives and the senior management team
  • Bias to action and passion for delivering high-quality data solutions
  • A passion for problem-solving and comfort with ambiguity
  • MS or Ph.D. in quantitative fields (Statistics, Math, CS or Engineering)

Skills

Required:Infrastructure data scienceManagement and leadership

Benefits

  • Benefits (region-specific details available via provided link)
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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