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# Engineering Manager - Backend

- **Company:** Databricks
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Big Data, Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Web Services, Backend, Information Technology, Build Tools, Databricks
- **Published:** July 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.nl/details/5696182271

## About the Role

* Experience with large-scale distributed web services and the processes around testing, monitoring, and SLAs.
 * Partner with PM, Sales, and Customers to develop innovative features.
 * BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.
 * 5 years of Engineering experience and 2 years of Engineering Management experience.

## Description

As an Engineering Manager, 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.
 * Support engineers in their career development by providing clear feedback and develop engineering leaders.
 * 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.


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