Sr. Engineering Manager - Pipelines Engine

Databricks · Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California · Executive Engineering - Pipeline · listed March 17, 2026

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The shape of it

Seniority
Manager
Experience asked
3–5 years
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$228,600 – $317,233 USD
Requirements listed
5
Length
940 words

In the posting’s own words

We're seeking a dedicated Engineering Leader to spearhead the Pipelines Engine engineering team. The team is responsible for building next generation Runtime ETL features and ensuring that Lakeflow Pipelines has state of art performance for ETL workloads. You will also spearhead the Agentic Data Engineering infrastructure, by building the next generation engine to power agentic pipeline authoring, execution and maintenance.

What it asks for · 5

  • Minimum 3 years of experience in managing top-tier engineering teams
  • 5+ years experience building data infrastructure systems such as Apache Spark™ or database internals.
  • Experience working with product management, and directly with customers; ability to understand customer needs.
  • Can ensure the team builds high quality and reliable infrastructure services. Experience being responsible for testing, quality, and Service Level Agreements of a product. Experience building and managing teams in a complex technical domain, such as on distributed data systems or database internals.
  • 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.

Tools and skills named

Data
  • Databricks6×
  • ETL5×
  • Spark5×
Product & design
  • Product management2×
  • Roadmap2×
Ways of working
  • Mentorship2×
  • Testing2×
Cloud & infra
  • Distributed systems2×

Words the posting leans on

  • experience12×
  • data11×
  • engineering10×
  • systems10×
  • building9×
  • product9×
  • build6×
  • customers6×
  • infrastructure6×
  • quality6×
  • talent6×
  • technical6×
  • responsible5×
  • database internals4×
  • distributed4×
  • experience building4×

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