Engineering Manager Pipelines Engine

P-1110

_{At Databricks we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the worlds toughest problems from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the worlds best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business.}

_{We are the Lakeflow Engineering team responsible for Databricks ETL product line: Jobs Spark Declarative Pipelines and Genie Code for Data Engineering. We run one of the worlds biggest (if not the biggest) data engineering platforms - responsible for processing exabytes of data daily for tens of thousands of customers.}

_{Were 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.}

_{The main responsibilities include:}

• _{You will lead an engineering team building the next-generation ETL features for the Databricks Lakeflow platform.}

• _{You will oversee sustained recruitment of top-tier talent and upskilling talent on the team.}

• _{You will build processes to implement product vision and strategy according to organizational goals and priorities.}

• _{You will build software that is not just high quality but easy to operate.}

• _{You will manage technical debt including long-term technical architecture decisions and balance product roadmap.}

_{What we look for:}

• _{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.}

• _{A passion for database systems storage systems distributed systems or performance optimization}

• _{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.}