Sr. Engineering Manager - Notebook Dataplane

Databricks · San Francisco, California · Engineering · listed September 29, 2025

The shape of it

Seniority
Manager
Experience asked
5–10 years
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$190,900 – $253,750 USD
Requirements listed
7
Length
783 words

In the posting’s own words

In this role, you will lead the Notebook Dataplane team, which is responsible for running user code in the Notebook. We are undergoing an exciting architecture transformation to run stateful user code as a service for the product teams, providing a reliable and low-latency service for the Serverless products and power agentic workloads. A strategic investment area for the company. As the Sr. Engineering Manager, you will play a critical role in driving the technical vision, architecture, and execution for the service. You will lead a team of software engineers and recruit new team members to realize the vision.

What it asks for · 7

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of technical leadership and impact.
  • 5+ years of engineering management experience.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating scalable SaaS platforms.
  • Expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and modern web application architectures.
  • Strong system-level skills. Experience with containers and K8S is highly desirable.
  • Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives.
  • Passion for the data intelligence space.

What the job covers

  • Define and drive the stateful user code execution service vision.
  • Partner with serverless platform teams to build the service.
  • Own the roadmap and execution, ensuring all team deliverables are met with high quality and on schedule.
  • Define team best practices for engineering excellence, including design reviews, code quality, testing strategies, and performance optimizations.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across the stack.

Tools and skills named

Cloud & infra
  • Serverless2×
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Distributed systems
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
Product & design
  • Roadmap
  • User experience
Data
  • Databricks
Go to market
  • SaaS
Ways of working
  • Testing

Words the posting leans on

  • service6×
  • data5×
  • engineering5×
  • experience4×
  • platform4×
  • technical4×
  • architecture3×
  • execution3×
  • product3×
  • user code3×
  • vision3×
  • building2×
  • business2×
  • collaborate2×
  • define2×
  • designing2×

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