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Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead, Lakebase Manager (LBM)

Databricks· Engineering
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Bellevue, WA$182.4k - $247kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Technical Lead for the Lakebase Manager (LBM) team at Databricks, driving the central control plane for Lakebase, ensuring reliability, architecture, and end-to-end ownership from design to implementation.

Responsibilities

  • Set the technical direction for LBM and own the quality and reliability of what the team ships, driving execution on the hardest, highest-risk parts.
  • Drive architecture and design, and write code on the hardest parts of your team's projects.
  • Set and uphold high technical standards through architecture reviews, testing, and a culture of engineering excellence.
  • Raise the technical bar of the team: mentor engineers, drive rigorous design and code review, and grow their distributed-systems and design skills.
  • Define SLIs, meet SLOs, and drive long-term reliability improvements across the database lifecycle.
  • Lead cross-team initiatives across the Lakebase stack: align with partner teams on dependencies and unblock cross-cutting projects.
  • Partner with engineering and product leadership to shape and deliver a long-term technical roadmap.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, including testing, monitoring, and SLIs/SLOs.
  • Track record of technical leadership as an individual contributor: setting architecture and direction for a team's projects through influence, without formal management authority.
  • Strong hands-on depth: design systems and write production code, and go deep on architecture for large-scale distributed services.
  • Experience operating reliability-critical, highly available services (on-call, incident response, HA/failover).
  • Comfortable working toward a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables, balancing short-term delivery against long-term stability.
  • Ability to align multiple stakeholders on competing priorities.
  • Proficiency in Go, Rust, or a similar systems language; experience with PostgreSQL and Kubernetes is a plus.
  • BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems design and architectureGo
Nice to have:RustPostgreSQLKubernetes

Benefits

  • Benefits information available via regional page linked in the job description.
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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