Team Lead - Platform Monitoring Engineer
Databricks · Bengaluru, India · Support · listed October 28, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Senior
Experience asked
2–6 years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
8
Length
657 words
In the posting’s own words
We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Team Lead to shape the future of platform observability and proactive customer monitoring. This is a high-impact technical role for someone who thrives at the intersection of platform reliability, incident response, and customer obsession.
What it asks for · 8
- Minimum of 6 years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, CRE, Production Engineer, or similar role.
- 2+ years of experience leading engineers, whether as a people manager or team lead, with clear mentorship and coaching responsibilities.
- Production-level experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) and proficiency in container and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, etc. Ability to architect monitoring solutions that correlate metrics, logs, and traces.
- Strong proficiency in Python or similar languages with the ability to build production-quality automation tools.
- Experience owning critical phases of the incident lifecycle from detection through resolution and post-mortem analysis in demanding production environments.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional partners.
- BS, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or a related Engineering field.
What the job covers
- Lead platform incident investigation, coordinating cross-functional teams through rapid detection, mitigation, and resolution to minimize customer impact.
- Conduct thorough post-incident root cause analysis across infrastructure, services, and cloud providers to identify systemic patterns and prevent future occurrences.
- Guide the design and implementation of customer-focused alerting pipelines and end-to-end observability workflows that expand detection coverage and reduce mean time to detection.
- Build automation tools, establish reusable monitoring patterns, and resolve reliability gaps that directly impact customer experience.
- Participate in and help structure the on-call rotation, leading by example during high-severity incidents.
- Collaborate with internal customer stakeholders to design and execute the customers' reliability plan, focusing on observability and monitoring.
- Participate in growing the local team of Platform Monitoring Engineers, including hiring and onboarding.
- Act as the local point of leadership and a connection to the broader global team, aligning local execution with global goals.
Degree language
- BS, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or a related Engineering field.
Tools and skills named
Cloud & infra
- Observability3×
- AWS
- Azure
- Docker
- GCP
- Grafana
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- Site reliability
Ways of working
- Cross-functional3×
- Mentorship2×
- On-call
Data
- Databricks
Languages
- Python
Words the posting leans on
- monitoring8×
- customer7×
- engineer6×
- experience6×
- incident6×
- platform6×
- detection5×
- lead4×
- leadership4×
- reliability4×
- tools4×
- alerting3×
- cross-functional3×
- engineering3×
- impact3×
- local3×
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