Tech Lead Manager - LakebaseActive

Databricks
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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

  • Lakebase Platform Reliability (LPR): Constantly evolve Lakebase reliability: cross-functional infrastructure, observability, SLI/SLO definition and measurement, and higher operational efficiency without humans-in-the-loop, for both internal and customer-facing systems, by building AI-powered automation and services.

  • Lakebase Proxy: Build the heart of the Lakebase data path, the network edge that every customer touches. The proxy handles all client connections and transfers every byte of query traffic, serving every data protocol: Postgres, HTTP, WebSockets, and the Data API. We route and manage large volumes of concurrent connections, solving load balancing, authentication, and data access at high throughput, with a focus on performance, observability, and reliability.

  • Lakebase Storage: Drive continuous delivery within a team of experts in storage technology, distributed systems, and Rust. We manage the development and rollout of storage services that host millions of customer databases across dozens of regions, partnering with peer engineering teams across Databricks to co-evolve Lakebase services with our global infrastructure, and leading operational excellence in the 24/7 operation of our system.

  • Lead a small team of 5-6 engineers, owning execution and on-time, high-quality delivery.

  • Stay hands-on: 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.

What they're looking for

  • Grow the engineers on your team with clear feedback and career development.
  • Align with partner teams on dependencies and unblock cross-cutting projects across the Lakebase stack.
  • Partner with engineering and product leadership to shape and deliver a long-term roadmap.
  • + years of engineering experience, including time as a tech lead or senior: engineer, driving projects end-to-end.