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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Engineering Manager - Notebook Dataplane - **Company:** Databricks - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $190,900.0 - $253,750.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Software Quality, Distributed Systems, Design of User Interfaces, Data Intelligence, Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, Strategies of Testing, Virtual Machines, Web Applications, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Serverless Computing, Databricks - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/sr-engineering-manager-notebook-dataplane-databricks-7298680 ## About the Role * 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of technical leadership and impact. * 5+ years of engineering management experience. * Experience designing, building, and operating scalable SaaS platforms. * Expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and modern web application architectures. * Strong system-level skills. Experience with containers and K8S is highly desirable. * Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives. * Passion for the data intelligence space. ## Description 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 tackle 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. In this role, you will lead the Notebook Dataplane team, which is responsible for running user code in the Notebook. We are undergoing an exciting architecture transformation to run stateful user code as a service for the product teams, providing a reliable and low-latency service for the Serverless products and power agentic workloads. A strategic investment area for the company. As the Sr. Engineering Manager, you will play a critical role in driving the technical vision, architecture, and execution for the service. You will lead a team of software engineers and recruit new team members to realize the vision. 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