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Engineering Manager - Pipelines Engine

Databricks Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California Full-time Executive Engineering - Pipeline Posted Apr 9, 2026
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What employees love

  • Engineers who built Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow — deep technical pedigree
  • Strong compensation and equity packages consistently above market

What could be better

  • Hypergrowth means org changes are constant — teams restructure frequently
  • Some legacy Spark-era tech debt that can slow down new features
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About the Role

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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.

We are the Lakeflow Engineering team, responsible for Databricks ETL product line: Jobs, Spark Declarative Pipelines, and Genie Code for Data Engineering. We run one of the world's biggest (if not the biggest) data engineering platforms - responsible for processing exabytes of data daily for tens of thousands of customers.

We're seeking a dedicated Engineering Leader to spearhead the Pipelines Engine engineering team. The team is responsible for building next generation Runtime ETL features and ensuring that Lakeflow Pipelines has state of art performance for ETL workloads. You will also spearhead the Agentic Data Engineering infrastructure, by building the next generation engine to power agentic pipeline authoring, execution and maintenance.

The main responsibilities include:

What we look for:

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Local Pay Range
$190,000$261,250 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Benefits

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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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What is the work-life balance like at Databricks?
Databricks has a work-life balance score of 3.9/5 based on employee reviews. This is about average for the AI/tech industry.
What is Databricks’s culture like?
Databricks is characterized by these culture values: eng-driven, learning, equity, diverse, product-impact. Based on employee reviews, the company has an overall rating of 4.1/5. Engineers who built Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow — deep technical pedigree
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