Sr. Automation Engineer - IT Asset Management

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

As a Senior Automation Engineer on the IT Asset Management team at Databricks, you will be the technical engine behind transforming how we manage ~$XXM/yr in asset spend across SaaS licenses and hardware. Your primary mission is to eliminate manual toil and build scalable, AI-powered automation that makes asset operations fast, accurate, and effortless as Databricks scales past 14,000 employees.

What it asks for · 5

• 5+ years of experience in IT systems engineering, automation engineering, or a related technical role.
• Proven track record of delivering complex, multi-system automation projects with measurable business impact.
• Strong automation-first mindset: you see a manual process and immediately think about how to build a scalable, reliable automated solution.
• Ability to operate with minimal guidance, take ownership of ambiguous problems, and deliver consistently high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.
• We value a great generalist who can learn a domain quickly over a narrow specialist. You should be comfortable ramping into unfamiliar systems and business processes and building effective automation without needing deep prior domain expertise.

Also a plus

• Experience with Databricks, data lakehouse architectures, or SQL-based analytics platforms.
• Experience with IT asset management or SaaS management tools (e.g., Oomnitza, Productiv, Zluri, or similar).
• Experience with no-code/low-code automation platforms (e.g., Tines, Workato, or similar).
• Familiarity with ITIL processes or IT service management frameworks.

What the job covers

• New hire laptop provisioning: Build end-to-end automation for assigning, configuring, and shipping laptops to new hires, targeting a 75% reduction in manual ticket toil.
• SaaS license lifecycle: Automate license consumption monitoring, inactivity-based seat clawbacks, renewal alerting, and cost optimization workflows to help drive $1.5M+ in annual savings and cost avoidance.
• Asset data quality: Automate CMDB/inventory reconciliation, deduplication, and multi-device detection to bring asset records to audit-ready accuracy.
• Offboarding asset recovery: Automate tracking and recovery of hardware from exiting employees, reducing loss and improving chain-of-custody compliance.
• Broader IT Ops automation (over time): Extend automation into IT support, AV/VC and event support, and incident response management as the ITAM automation foundation matures.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• automation16×
• asset13×
• management12×
• experience9×
• asset management6×
• similar6×
• data5×
• license5×
• support5×
• systems5×
• tools5×
• workflows5×
• building4×
• platforms4×
• processes4×
• saas4×

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