Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead, Lakebase Manager (LBM)
Databricks3 months ago
Base Salary
$182k - $247k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for Lakebase Manager and own the quality and reliability of the team’s deliverables.
- Drive architecture and design while writing code for the most difficult parts of projects.
- Establish technical standards through architecture reviews, testing, and engineering practices.
- Mentor engineers and lead design reviews, code reviews, and development of distributed-systems skills.
- Define SLIs, meet SLOs, and deliver long-term reliability improvements across the database lifecycle.
- Lead cross-team initiatives across the Lakebase stack, coordinating dependencies and unblocking cross-cutting projects.
- Partner with engineering and product leadership to shape and deliver the long-term technical roadmap.
- Build and operate control-plane functionality for database creation and deletion, wake-up and suspension, hot-standby compute, and high-availability failover.
Requirements
- 8+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, including testing, monitoring, and SLI/SLO processes.
- Demonstrated technical leadership as an individual contributor, setting architecture and direction through influence without formal management authority.
- Strong hands-on experience designing systems and writing production code for large-scale distributed services.
- Experience operating reliability-critical, highly available services, including on-call, incident response, and high-availability or failover systems.
- Ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term stability while working toward a multi-year vision.
- Ability to align multiple stakeholders with competing priorities and focus on customer value.
- Proficiency in Go, Rust, or a similar systems language; PostgreSQL and Kubernetes experience is a plus.
- BS or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks are offered, with details varying by region.
- Annual performance bonus and equity may be included in the total compensation package.
Tech Stack
About Databricks
Databricks builds a cloud-based data and AI platform centered on the lakehouse architecture, combining data engineering, analytics, and machine learning with Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. It sells subscriptions and cloud services to enterprises that need to unify data pipelines and develop large-scale AI and analytics. Founded in 2013 by the creators of Apache Spark and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and serves organizations across many industries.