Engineering Manager (Ingestion)
Databricks · Bengaluru, India · Executive Engineering - Pipeline · listed January 1, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Manager
Experience asked
10+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
5
Length
639 words
In the posting’s own words
In addition to being an important part of Lakeflow and Data Engineering, Connect is also a key platform capability. Every surface in Databricks (Dashboards, Notebooks, SQL, AI) requires ingestion capabilities and the lead for this role will need to work closely with other products to embed Connect into these surfaces.
What it asks for · 5
- 10+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems
- Building, growing, and managing high-performance teams
- Ability to attract and hire engineers who meet the Databricks hiring principles
- Existing experience building and running cloud platforms -or- demonstrated ability to quickly learn new concepts in the SaaS space (e.g technical background and fast learner).
- Experience working cross-functionality with product management and directly with customers; ability to deeply understand product and customer personas.
What the job covers
- Solve real business needs at a large scale by applying your software engineering
- Ensure consistent delivery against milestones and strong alignment with the field working "two-in-a-box" with product leadership
- Evolve organizational structure to align with long term initiatives, build strong "5 ingredient" teams with good comms architecture
- Manage technical debt, including long term technical architecture decisions and balance product roadmap
- Leading and participating in technical, product, and design discussions
- Building, managing, and operating a highly scalable services in the cloud
- Growing leaders on the team by providing coaching, mentorship, and growth opportunities
Tools and skills named
Data
- Databricks5×
- Data warehouse
Go to market
- SaaS
- Salesforce
Languages
- SQL2×
Product & design
- Product management
- Roadmap
Ways of working
- Mentorship2×
Cloud & infra
- Distributed systems
Words the posting leans on
- product7×
- data5×
- building4×
- connect4×
- experience4×
- technical4×
- cloud3×
- key3×
- solve3×
- architecture2×
- build2×
- customer2×
- e.g2×
- engineering2×
- experience building2×
- growing2×
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