Sr. Engineering Manager - Agentic Service Platform
$229k - $314k • Remote • Mountain View, California
Posted 12d ago
Job Location
Mountain View, California
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
As a Sr. Engineering Manager on the Agentic Service Platform team at Databricks, you will be responsible for building the foundational service frameworks and runtime infrastructure that power every microservice at Databricks. The team's goal is to make every service at Databricks fast, reliable, observable, and secure by default. This role involves owning the core agentic service platform, including multi-language service and RPC frameworks, core libraries, request context propagation, overload protection, and abstractions that extend full platform capabilities to any language. Your work will be high-leverage, with a single improvement benefiting thousands of production services and engineers across the company.
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale a multi-faceted team of talented engineers, including line managers and senior/staff ICs, building core agentic service platform infrastructure.
- Own and set the multi-year technical strategy and organizational roadmap for a critical, cross-cutting domain within the agentic service platform.
- Drive and ensure the predictable, high-quality delivery of complex, multi-quarter/multi-year strategic initiatives, often spanning multiple teams and product areas.
- Champion the career development and growth of engineers and managers, including coaching senior ICs and guiding line managers.
- Proactively align and influence product and engineering leadership across multiple partner organizations to ensure the long-term success of the platform.
Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, service frameworks, or platform infrastructure.
- 4+ years of engineering management experience leading strong technical teams.
- High technical judgment in building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of customer interactions with platform products across multiple components.
- Demonstrated success in attracting, hiring, and retaining top-tier talent.
- Experience coaching and mentoring line managers or senior/staff level ICs.
- Proven ability to handle complex performance management and promotion cases.
- Experience building and running cloud platforms, or demonstrated ability to quickly learn new concepts in the SaaS space.
Benefits
- Eligibility for annual performance bonus
- Equity
- Comprehensive benefits and perks