Sr. Engineering Manager - Pipelines Engine

About this role

<p>P-1110</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><sub><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's 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 world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. </span></sub></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><sub><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We are the Lakeflow Engineering team,  responsible for Databricks ETL product line: <a href="https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/jobs/">Jobs</a>, <a href="https://www.databricks.com/product/data-engineering/spark-declarative-pipelines">Spark Declarative Pipelines</a>, and <a href="https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-genie-code">Genie Code for Data Engineering</a>. We run one of the world's biggest (if not the biggest) data engineering platforms - responsible for processing exabytes of data daily for tens of thousands of customers. </span></sub></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><sub><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We're 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.</span></sub></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><sub><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The main responsibilities include:</span></sub></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><sub><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">You will lead an engineering team building the next-generation ETL features for the Databricks Lakeflow platform.</span></sub></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><sub><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">You will oversee sustained recruitment of top-tier talent, and upskilling talent on the team.</span></sub></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><sub><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">You will build processes to implement product vision and strategy, according to organizational goals and priorities.</span></sub></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><sub><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">You will build software that is not just high quality but easy to operate. </span></sub></span></p> </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><sub><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">You will manage technical debt, including long-term technical architecture decisions and balance product roadmap.</span></sub></span></p> </li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><sub><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">What we look for:</span></sub></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><sub><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Minimum 3 years of experience in managing top-tier engineering teams</span></sub></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><sub><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">5+ years experience building data infrastructure systems such as Apache Spark™ or database internals.</span></sub></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><sub><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems,  or performance optimization</span></sub></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><sub><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience working with product management, and directly with customers; ability to understand customer…