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Engineering Manager, App Traffic

Databricks· Engineering
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Mountain View, CA$190k - $237.5kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager to lead the App Traffic team responsible for critical networking infrastructure powering communication across the Databricks platform, including the unified service mesh, ingress, service discovery, traffic management, and intelligent routing across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, grow, and develop a high-performing team of engineers responsible for Databricks’ application traffic infrastructure.
  • Drive the design and evolution of highly available distributed systems operating across multiple clouds and regions.
  • Partner with senior and staff engineers on architectural decisions involving routing, control planes, reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
  • Lead large, ambiguous projects with dependencies across multiple engineering teams.
  • Establish clear goals, milestones, ownership boundaries, and operating mechanisms that enable predictable execution.
  • Balance immediate product and operational priorities with longer-term investments in architecture, reliability, and engineering velocity.
  • Build strong partnerships with infrastructure and application teams.
  • Recruit exceptional engineers and support the growth and development of engineers at all levels.
  • Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, operational rigor, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

  • 9+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with 2+ years of engineering leadership experience in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
  • Experience managing engineering teams working on distributed systems, networking infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, or platform infrastructure.
  • Strong technical judgment and the ability to engage deeply with senior engineers on complex systems architecture.
  • A track record of successfully leading large, ambiguous, cross-functional engineering initiatives.
  • Strong understanding of reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence in production systems.
  • Experience developing senior engineers and building high-performing teams.
  • Ability to influence and align stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsNetworking infrastructureCloud infrastructureLeadership

Benefits

  • Benefits are provided and detailed via regional link. (link in description)
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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