Sr Engineering Manager - Database Infrastructure

P-995

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 infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

As one of the first Engineering Managers in the Database Infra team at Databricks India, you will work with your team to build infrastructure and products for the Databricks platform at scale. 

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Database Infrastructure and Best Practices team in Bangalore (India), focusing on the design, maintenance, client access libraries and optimization of our MySQL database stack. In this role, you will guide a team of engineers to ensure the reliability, performance, and security of our databases. You will work closely with multiple stakeholders across the organization to enhance database access patterns, client libraries and develop proactive mechanisms for identifying and addressing potential failures before they impact the business. Your leadership will drive continuous improvements in our database infrastructure, aligning with business goals and industry best practices.

The impact you will have:

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers responsible for maintaining and optimizing MySQL infrastructure and best practices.
• Collaborate with software engineering and other stakeholders to improve database access patterns and performance.
• Develop and implement strategies for proactive failure detection and resolution to ensure database reliability and availability.
• Oversee the implementation of best practices for database design, security, and access management.
• Drive strategic initiatives to enhance the scalability, performance, and resilience of database systems.
• Manage database backup, replication, disaster recovery, and incident response processes.
• Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor database health and efficiency.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership in addressing complex database-related challenges.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and process improvement within the team.

What we look for:

• 12+ years of extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems alongside the processes around testing, monitoring, SLAs etc
• 7+ years of proven managerial experience in managing and mentoring engineering teams, particularly in database infrastructure.
• Technical expertise in MySQL or other high transaction OLTP database operations, optimization, and security best practices.
• Demonstrated success in working with multiple stakeholders to optimize database access patterns and improve system performance.
• Experience in developing and implementing proactive mechanisms for failure detection and incident prevention.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and project management skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.