Engineering Manager - Backend
- Level
- Lead
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 3 October 2026.
About the role
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 Software Engineering team at Databricks India, you will work with your team to build infrastructure and products for the Databricks platform at scale. We have multiple teams working on different domains.
- Resource management infrastructure powering the big data and machine learning workloads on the Databricks platform in a scalable, secure, and cloud-agnostic way
- Develop reliable, scalable services and client libraries that work with massive amounts of data on the cloud, across geographic regions and Cloud providers
- Build tools to allow Databricks engineers to operate their services across different clouds and environments
- Build services, products and infrastructure at the intersection of machine learning and distributed systems.
The impact you will have:
- Hire great engineers to build an outstanding team.
- Ensure high technical standards by instituting processes (architecture reviews, testing) and culture (engineering excellence).
- Work with engineering and product leadership to build a long-term roadmap.
- Coordinate execution and collaborate across teams to unblock cross-cutting projects.
What we look for:
- 10+ years of extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems alongside the processes around testing, monitoring, SLAs etc
- Extensive experience as a Software Engineering Leader , building & scaling software engineering teams from ground up
- Extensive experience managing a team of strong software engineers
- Partner with PM, Sales, and Customers to develop innovative features & products.
- BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.
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About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.
Benefits
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The team: Executive Engineering - Pipeline
This role is one of 31 open in Executive Engineering - Pipeline.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Databricks (31 of 31), Unity (31 of 31), Kubernetes (9 of 31), Delta Lake (6 of 31), Spark (5 of 31), ETL (4 of 31), C++ (3 of 31)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Principal AI Research Scientist, Research Director - AI Scaling posted May 20
- Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Managed Tables posted May 19
- Staff Software Engineer - AI Research Infrastructure posted May 1
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - Lakeflow Pipelines Datasets posted Apr 2
- Sr.Staff Software Engineer- Network Platform posted Mar 23
- Sr. Engineering Manager - Pipelines Engine posted Mar 17
- Senior Staff Software Engineer- Networking posted Feb 23
- Engineering Manager (Ingestion) posted Jan 1
- Principal Engineer, Compute Fleet Management posted Dec 11
- Engineering Manager - Streaming posted Dec 5
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta posted Nov 21
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta posted Nov 21
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta posted Nov 21
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta posted Nov 21
- Director of Engineering (Data Infrastructure) posted Nov 13
- Director of Engineering posted Aug 14
- Senior Engineering Manager - Enzyme posted Aug 7
- Engineering Manager - UI Platform posted May 27
- Staff Software Engineer - IAM posted May 13
- Staff Software Engineer - IAM posted May 13
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - Enzyme posted Mar 28
- Senior Staff Software Engineer (Backend) posted Sep 22
- Sr Staff Software Engineer (Backend) posted Sep 9
- Senior Engineering Manager - Backend posted Jul 2
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta posted Apr 4
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - IAM posted Mar 6
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - IAM posted Mar 6
- Senior Software Engineer - Security posted Mar 6
- Engineering Manager - Core Experiences posted Dec 16
- Engineering Manager - Compute Infra posted May 4
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