Tech Lead Manager - Lakebase

Databricks
London
Full timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Architecture design","Testing discipline","Monitoring and observability focus","Stakeholder alignment","People management"]

Lead a small team of 5–6 engineers building Lakebase, a managed Postgres transactional layer for application state and workloads. Spend most of your time hands-on driving architecture and design, writing code on the hardest distributed systems problems, and improving reliability through observability and SLI/SLO measurement. Partner across the Lakebase stack and with product and engineering leadership to shape a long-term roadmap while growing your team through feedback and career development.

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Tech Lead Manager - Lakebase

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Job Summary

Lead a small team of 5–6 engineers building Lakebase, a managed Postgres transactional layer for application state and workloads. Spend most of your time hands-on driving architecture and design, writing code on the hardest distributed systems problems, and improving reliability through observability and SLI/SLO measurement. Partner across the Lakebase stack and with product and engineering leadership to shape a long-term roadmap while growing your team through feedback and career development.
Location: London
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead a small team of 5–6 engineers, owning execution and on-time, high-quality delivery.
  • •Drive architecture and design and write code on the hardest parts of your team’s projects.
  • •Set and uphold high technical standards through architecture reviews, testing, and a culture of engineering excellence.
  • •Grow engineers through clear feedback and career development.
  • •Align with partner teams on dependencies and unblock cross-cutting projects across the Lakebase stack.

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of engineering experience, including time as a tech lead or senior engineer, driving projects end-to-end.
  • •Strong hands-on technical depth designing systems and writing code, with deep architecture experience for large-scale distributed services.
  • •Experience with large-scale distributed services and processes around testing, monitoring, and SLAs.
  • •People management capability (or tech lead experience) with readiness to take direct reports.
  • •BS (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field.
Experience:5+ yearsData infrastructureData and AIDistributed systems
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:Architecture designTesting disciplineMonitoring and observability focusStakeholder alignmentPeople management
Languages:English
Tech Stack:RustPostgresHTTPWebSocketsSLI/SLOSLAsObservabilityApache SparkDelta LakeMLflowLakehouseData API

Company Brief

Databricks
Provides a unified data analytics platform powered by Apache Spark to simplify building, deploying, and scaling data engineering, data science, and machine learning workloads for enterprises.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2013
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