About the company
Databricks is passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems. We build and run the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for LBM and own the quality and reliability of what the team ships.
- Drive architecture and design, and write code on the hardest parts of your team's projects.
- Set and uphold high technical standards through architecture reviews, testing, and a culture of engineering excellence.
- Raise the technical bar of the team: mentor engineers, drive rigorous design and code review.
- Define SLIs, meet SLOs, and drive long-term reliability improvements across the database lifecycle.
- Lead cross-team initiatives across the Lakebase stack.
- Partner with engineering and product leadership to shape and deliver a long-term technical roadmap.
Requirements
- 8+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Track record of technical leadership as an individual contributor.
- Strong hands-on depth: design systems and write production code.
- Experience operating reliability-critical, highly available services.
- Comfortable working toward a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
- Ability to align multiple stakeholders on competing priorities.
- Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
- Proficiency in Go, Rust, or a similar systems language; experience with PostgreSQL and Kubernetes is a plus.
- BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.