Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager - ReliabilityActive$190K

The opportunity

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles.

What you'll do

  • Partner with senior engineering leadership to define the long-term: Reliability roadmap, influence technical direction, and ensure alignment across teams.

  • Ensure clarity and alignment on priorities across engineering teams,: including Platform Engineering, Compute Fleet Management, SRE, Security, and Cloud Partnerships.

  • Own program execution end-to-end: planning, risk management, dependency mapping, trade-off decisions, status reporting, and delivery.

  • Identify gaps in process or architecture and work with TLs to proactively: drive organizational or technical improvements.

  • Using your background in infrastructure, distributed systems, or SRE to help: teams make sound design and prioritization decisions.

  • Facilitate alignment between cross-functional teams to ensure programs are: technically grounded and execution-ready.

What they're looking for

  • Background in distributed systems engineering, SRE, platform infrastructure, or cloud services.
  • Experience with large-scale compute fleets, container orchestration,: autoscaling, or control-plane architecture.
  • Familiarity with reliability methodologies such as SLOs, error budgets, chaos: engineering, failure mode analysis, and incident management frameworks.
  • Expertise using Jira or equivalent tools for program tracking and execution.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; advanced degree preferred.