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Sr. Engineering Manager - Agentic Service Platform

Databricks· Engineering
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Mountain View, CA$228.6k - $314.3kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior leadership role responsible for building and scaling the foundational agentic service platform infrastructure that powers all microservices at Databricks, including multi-language service frameworks, RPC, core libraries, and platform abstractions to ensure fast, reliable, observable, and secure services.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and scale a multi-faceted team of engineers (may include line managers and senior/staff ICs) building core agentic service platform infrastructure used by every service at Databricks.
  • Own and set the multi-year technical strategy and organizational roadmap for a critical, cross-cutting domain within the agentic service platform.
  • Drive and ensure the predictable, high-quality delivery of complex, multi-quarter/multi-year strategic initiatives, often spanning multiple teams and product areas.
  • Champion the career development and growth of engineers and managers, including coaching senior (L5/L6) ICs and guiding line managers.
  • Proactively align and influence product and engineering leadership across multiple partner organizations to ensure the long-term success of the platform.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, service frameworks, or platform infrastructure
  • 4+ years of engineering management experience leading strong technical teams
  • A track record of high technical judgment in building and operating large-scale distributed systems, and a deep understanding of customer interactions with platform products across multiple components
  • Demonstrated success in attracting, hiring, and retaining top-tier talent and experience coaching and mentoring line managers or senior/staff level ICs. Proven ability to handle complex performance management and promotion cases
  • Existing experience building and running cloud platforms, or demonstrated ability to quickly learn new concepts in the SaaS space

Skills

Required:Engineering leadershipDistributed systemsTech strategy and roadmap

Benefits

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

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