Senior Engineering Manager for Self-Serve (Learning)New$222K
The opportunity
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…
What you'll do
Strategy & Vision: Define and drive the technical and product strategy for Learning, and tie it into the broader self-serve growth motion.
Execution Ownership: Own the roadmap, execution, and delivery — taking a 0→1 product from early signal to millions of learners at the highest standards of quality.
Engineering Excellence: Establish team best practices — design reviews, code quality, testing, and performance for high-scale, interactive systems.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely across R&D, the Learning & Enablement org, Marketing (university and online channels), and Field Engineering to align the product with how learners actually reach and adopt Databricks.
+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record of technical leadership and impact.
+ years of engineering management experience, including 2+ years managing: other managers (or clear readiness to).
What they're looking for
- Technical Depth: A Staff engineer caliber IC background before pivoting to management, with full-stack experience (including back-end, not purely front-end/UI); comfort leading a mix of front-end and full-stack engineers.
- Scaling: Proven experience scaling engineering teams from 10 to 30+ engineers.
- Product & Domain Fit:
- A track record building and scaling consumer-facing products, ideally taking: early-stage products from 0→1 through scale. Scope- and impact-driven over team-size-driven.