Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager - Reliability

Drive Execution of Critical Reliability Programs

Partner Deeply with Engineering & Influence Technical Direction

Elevate Reliability Culture Across the Organization

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience managing and delivering large-scale technical programs in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, SRE, or platform engineering environments.
• Experience developing infrastructure at two or more hyperscale cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), with knowledge of cloud primitives, multi-AZ/region architecture, and control plane/data plane patterns.
• Demonstrated success leading Reliability Programs at scale - including availability, failover, operational excellence, incident reduction, or dependency hardening.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure, distributed systems, or SRE practices; previous engineering or SRE experience is highly preferred.
• Experience partnering directly with senior engineering leadership to define strategy and drive large, multi-team initiatives.
• Ability to translate ambiguous goals into actionable program plans with clear milestones, KPIs, and success metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex cross-organizational dependencies, technical risks, and multi-quarter timelines.
• Experience delivering programs across multiple clouds and/or large-scale cloud-native services.
• Experience building and scaling engineering processes, operational frameworks, and stakeholder alignment mechanisms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in distributed systems engineering, SRE, platform infrastructure, or cloud services.
• Experience with large-scale compute fleets, container orchestration, autoscaling, or control-plane architecture.
• Familiarity with reliability methodologies such as SLOs, error budgets, chaos engineering, failure mode analysis, and incident management frameworks.
• Expertise using Jira or equivalent tools for program tracking and execution.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; advanced degree preferred.

Pay Range Transparency

• Databricks 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 .

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