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Sr Platform Monitoring Engineer

Databricks
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United States$144.6k - $198.9kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior platform monitoring engineer focusing on observability, incident response, and reliability for the Databricks platform. Leads complex investigations, designs monitoring solutions, and drives systemic reliability improvements with a customer-obsessed, on-call oriented approach.

Responsibilities

  • Lead platform incident investigation, coordinating cross-functional teams through rapid detection, mitigation, and resolution to minimize customer impact.
  • Conduct thorough post-incident root cause analysis across infrastructure, services, and cloud providers to identify systemic patterns and prevent future occurrences.
  • Design and implement customer-focused alerting pipelines and end-to-end observability workflows to enhance detection coverage and reduce mean time to detection.
  • Build automation tools, establish reusable monitoring patterns, and resolve reliability gaps that directly impact customer experience.
  • Provide mentorship to junior engineers on observability patterns, alert design, and service health metrics.
  • Participate in on-call rotation

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 6 years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, Production Engineer, or similar role.
  • Production-level experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) and proficiency in container and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, etc. Ability to architect monitoring solutions that correlate metrics, logs, and traces.
  • Strong proficiency in Python or similar languages with the ability to build production-quality automation tools.
  • Experience owning critical phases of the incident lifecycle from detection through resolution and post-mortem analysis in demanding production environments.
  • BS or Master's, or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or related Engineering field.

Skills

Required:incident management and root cause analysisobservability and monitoring designPython

Benefits

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

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