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Sr. Engineering Manager - Pipelines Engine

Databricks· Lakeflow Engineering / Pipelines Engine
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Mountain View, CA, San Francisco, CA$228.6k - $317.2kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Engineering leader role overseeing the Pipelines Engine team within Databricks Lakeflow, responsible for next-generation ETL features, performance optimization of Pipelines, and agentic data engineering infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • You will lead an engineering team building the next-generation ETL features for the Databricks Lakeflow platform.
  • You will oversee sustained recruitment of top-tier talent, and upskilling talent on the team.
  • You will build processes to implement product vision and strategy, according to organizational goals and priorities.
  • You will build software that is not just high quality but easy to operate.
  • You will manage technical debt, including long-term technical architecture decisions and balance product roadmap.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 3 years of experience in managing top-tier engineering teams
  • 5+ years experience building data infrastructure systems such as Apache Spark™ or database internals.
  • A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, or performance optimization
  • Experience working with product management, and directly with customers; ability to understand customer needs.
  • Can ensure the team builds high quality and reliable infrastructure services. Experience being responsible for testing, quality, and Service Level Agreements of a product. Experience building and managing teams in a complex technical domain, such as on distributed data systems or database internals.
  • Expertise in attracting, hiring and coaching engineers, who will meet the Databricks hiring standards. Experience up-leveling teams via hiring top-notch talent and growing existing team members.

Skills

Required:ETL feature development

Benefits

  • Benefits information available via regional link (see Benefits section)
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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