Sr. Manager, Engineering - Unity Catalog Infra

Sr. Manager, Engineering - Unity Catalog Infra

Mountain View, California

At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems—from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business.

Databricks Unity Catalog is the industry’s only unified and open governance solution for data and AI, built into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. It enables data scientists, analysts, and engineers to securely discover, access, and collaborate on trusted data and AI assets across platforms. Unity Catalog enhances productivity through AI‑powered governance, simplifying compliance while maximizing interoperability.

Sitting at the core of Databricks’ data access ecosystem, Unity Catalog tackles some of the toughest engineering challenges—low latency, high availability, and extreme scalability. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead one of the Unity Catalog Infra teams in developing the next‑generation highly scalable, performant foundation layer for our data governance platform, supporting hundreds of billions of daily API requests.

• Technical Leadership
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  Lead and guide the team in building a highly scalable, performant, and extensible storage foundation for our governance platform. Make critical long‑term technical architecture decisions and balance the product roadmap.
• Operational Excellence
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  Build software that is not just high quality but easy to operate. Ensure the team delivers high‑quality, reliable infrastructure services with robust SLAs, testing, and monitoring.
• Team Development
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  Oversee sustained recruitment of top‑tier talent, fostering a well‑organized and synergistic team structure, and collaborating effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration
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  Work closely with product and infrastructure teams to align strategy, execution, and roadmap in alignment with organizational goals and priorities.

• 5+ years experience building database systems, storage systems, data platforms, distributed systems, or large‑scale backend systems.
• At least 3 years of experience in managing top‑tier engineering teams.
• BS in Computer Science (Masters or higher level of education preferred).
• Passion for building highly scalable and reliable infrastructure.
• Experience scaling engineering teams from 5 to 20+.
• Define and meet SLOs for highly‑available systems.
• 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.
• Ensure the team builds high quality and reliable infrastructure services; previous experience leading teams in a complex technical domain, such as on distributed data systems or large‑scale data platforms.

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non‑commissionable roles or on‑target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job‑related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location.

Local Pay Range

$217,000 — $288,400 USD

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide—including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500—rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow.

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