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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.\nLakebase enables teams to deliver applications faster with an optimized database developer experience, integration with the lakehouse, and simplified operations. It provides a managed Postgres transactional layer for application state and workloads that combine operational data, analytics, and AI. 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The stack is Go, Rust, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes.\nThe impact you will have:\nSet the technical direction for LBM and own the quality and reliability of what the team ships, driving execution on the hardest, highest-risk parts.\nDrive architecture and design, and write code on the hardest parts of your team's projects.\nSet and uphold high technical standards through architecture reviews, testing, and a culture of engineering excellence.\nRaise the technical bar of the team: mentor engineers, drive rigorous design and code review, and grow their distributed-systems and design skills.\nDefine SLIs, meet SLOs, and drive long-term reliability improvements across the database lifecycle.\nLead cross-team initiatives across the Lakebase stack: align with partner teams on dependencies and unblock cross-cutting projects.\nPartner with engineering and product leadership to shape and deliver a long-term technical roadmap.\nWhat we look for:\n8+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, including the processes around testing, monitoring, and SLIs/SLOs.\nA track record of technical leadership as an individual contributor: setting architecture and direction for a team's projects through influence, without formal management authority.\nStrong hands-on depth: you still design systems and write production code, and can go deep on architecture for large-scale distributed services.\nExperience operating reliability-critical, highly available services (on-call, incident response, HA/failover).\nComfortable working toward a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables, and balancing short-term delivery against long-term stability.\nAbility to align multiple stakeholders on competing priorities.\nMotivated by delivering customer value and impact.\nProficiency in Go, Rust, or a similar systems language; experience with PostgreSQL and Kubernetes is a plus.\nBS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.\nPay Range Transparency\nDatabricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.\nLocal Pay Range\n$182,400—$247,000 USD\nAbout Databricks\nDatabricks is the Data and AI company. 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