Sr. Engineering Manager - Agentic Service Platform

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

As a Sr. Engineering Manager on the Agentic Service Platform team, you will be responsible for building the foundational service frameworks and runtime infrastructure that power every microservice at Databricks. The team's goal is to make every service at Databricks fast, reliable, observable, and secure by default, without each team having to solve these problems independently. The team owns the core agentic service platform: multi-language service and RPC frameworks, core libraries, request context propagation, overload protection, and abstractions that extend full platform capabilities to any language. The team’s work is high-leverage - a single improvement we ship benefits thousands of production services and thousands of engineers across the company.

What it asks for · 5

• 8+ years of engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, service frameworks, or platform infrastructure
• 4+ years of engineering management experience leading strong technical teams
• A track record of high technical judgment in building and operating large-scale distributed systems, and a deep understanding of customer interactions with platform products across multiple components.
• Demonstrated success in attracting, hiring, and retaining top-tier talent and experience coaching and mentoring line managers or senior/staff level ICs. Proven ability to handle complex performance management and promotion cases.
• Existing experience building and running cloud platforms, or demonstrated ability to quickly learn new concepts in the SaaS space.

What the job covers

• Lead and scale a multi-faceted team of talented engineers, which may include line managers and senior/staff ICs, building core agentic service platform infrastructure used by every service at Databricks.
• Own and set the multi-year technical strategy and organizational roadmap for a critical, cross-cutting domain within the agentic service platform.
• Drive and ensure the predictable, high-quality delivery of complex, multi-quarter/multi-year strategic initiatives, often spanning multiple teams and product areas.
• Champion the career development and growth of engineers and managers, including coaching senior (L5/L6) ICs and guiding line managers.
• Proactively align and influence product and engineering leadership across multiple partner organizations to ensure the long-term success of the platform.

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Words the posting leans on

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• building6×
• infrastructure5×
• agentic service4×
• data4×
• engineering4×
• engineers4×
• every4×
• experience4×
• service platform4×
• technical4×
• customer3×
• ics3×
• line managers3×
• multiple3×

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