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Databricks

Senior Engineering Manager for Workspace Platform

AI summary of the role

Lead a ~20-person engineering team building the unified shared platform for Databricks' workspace experience, covering content discovery, organization, collaborative editing, and repository management.

What you’ll do

  • Define and drive the technical strategy for the Workspace Platform, including building over 16 shared capabilities that underpin the entire Databricks experience.
  • Own the roadmap, execution, and delivery for the platform, ensuring all team deliverables meet the highest standards of quality and timeliness.
  • Establish and enforce team best practices for engineering excellence, including design reviews, code quality, testing strategies, and performance optimizations for high-volume distributed systems.
  • Partner closely with teams across the organization, including those developing vertical product experiences (Lakehouse Platform, SQL Warehouse, AI/BI Dashboards, UC Platform) and core infrastructure, to ensure seamless integration and innovation.

What you’ll bring

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record of technical leadership and impact.
  • 5+ years of engineering management experience, including experience managing other managers.
  • Proven experience scaling engineering teams from 10 to 30+ engineers.
  • Experience leading platform teams and backend developers in a SaaS environment.

Technologies

distributed systems · AWS · Azure · GCP · containerization · SaaS · web application architectures

About Databricks

Unified Data Intelligence Platform (lakehouse + Mosaic AI) used by 10,000+ orgs and 50%+ of the Fortune 500 for ETL, BI, ML, and GenAI.

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RDQ225R488 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. The Workspace Platform team is on an ambitious mission to scale our customer base 100x and support the future of agentic AI workloads. Our goal is to build a unified, consistent, and foundational Shared Platform for the entire Databricks Workspace experience. As a Senior Engineering Manager on the Workspace Platform team, you will lead the development of unified infrastructure powering critical customer-facing capabilities across multiple Databricks products, including Content Discovery (akin to Google
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RDQ225R488 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. The Workspace Platform team is on an ambitious mission to scale our customer base 100x and support the future of agentic AI workloads. Our goal is to build a unified, consistent, and foundational Shared Platform for the entire Databricks Workspace experience. As a Senior Engineering Manager on the Workspace Platform team, you will lead the development of unified infrastructure powering critical customer-facing capabilities across multiple Databricks products, including Content Discovery (akin to Google Search), Content Organization (akin to Google Drive), Collaborative code editing, and Repository management (akin to Github). This is a high-impact, exciting opportunity to guide a team of ~20 software engineers in creating platform features, intuitive workspace experiences, and partner integrations that are essential to Databricks' expansion and user adoption. The impact you will have: Strategy & Vision: Define and drive the technical strategy for the Workspace Platform, including building over 16 s

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