Sr. Manager, Engineering Configuration Platform Team

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team within the Configuration Platform organization. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines deep distributed systems judgment with strong people leadership, driving multi-quarter strategy on one of Databricks' most critical stability primitives while continuing to raise the bar for how engineers across the company ship change safely.

What it asks for · 8

• 5+ years managing backend, infrastructure, or platform teams of roughly 7 to 15 engineers, ideally in service frameworks, feature flags, configuration systems, release safety, production reliability, or other internal platforms
• Strong distributed systems and infrastructure background: Java/Scala services, RPC and routing layers, configuration systems, Kubernetes-based microservices, and multi-cloud or multi-region deployments
• Hands-on EM disposition: stays close to the code, leads design reviews, and contributes technically alongside the team. Comfortable leveraging AI-assisted coding tools to amplify their own and the team's output
• Demonstrated track record managing, growing, and retaining high performing teams
• Comfortable partnering with senior+ engineers on design reviews, roadmap, and cross-team execution while letting strong ICs own technical details
• Operational experience owning a high-availability platform with on-call, incident response, and measurable reliability improvements
• Demonstrated product thinking for developers: shaping opinionated UX, rollout policies, and developer workflows that make the safe path the easy path, with strong taste on the safety versus velocity tradeoff
• BS in Computer Science (Masters or higher level of education preferred)

What the job covers

• You will lead a team that directly shapes how thousands of Databricks engineers ship, ramp, and roll back changes every day
• You will reduce the rate and blast radius of customer-impacting incidents caused by configuration and feature changes, through stronger guardrails, validation, and graduated rollout patterns
• You will close the loop between "bad change" and automated mitigation, driving company-wide MTTR down through investments in health-mediated releases, auto-rollback, and zero-downtime configuration delivery
• You will evolve the Configuration Platform user experience into a frictionless, opinionated set of surfaces (UI, CLI, agentic) where engineers author, review, and roll out changes safely without thinking about the internals
• You will grow the team into a Staff and Principal attracting org whose technical decisions shape how the company balances speed and reliability

Degree language

• BS in Computer Science (Masters or higher level of education preferred)

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

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• platform8×
• engineers7×
• changes6×
• systems5×
• data4×
• every4×
• feature4×
• infrastructure4×
• service4×
• configuration platform3×
• incidents3×
• internal3×
• lead3×
• reliability3×
• roll3×

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