Sr. Manager, Engineering - AI Gateway (LLM Inference)

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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.

The impact you will have

As the Sr. Manager of Engineering in our newly opened NYC engineering hub, you will be leading teams building multiple products that enable our customers to use innovative ML/AI techniques to add value to their business. You will work closely with product and research on cutting-edge technologies and be responsible for launching and growing new products, playing a key role in defining the future of how AI and data applications are built.

The Databricks AI Gateway is an enterprise control plane for governing, routing, and monitoring LLM endpoints, coding agents, and model serving endpoints on Databricks. AI Gateway lets you standardize, secure, and observe all LLM inference traffic on Databricks, while capturing detailed production data to manage cost, performance, and quality over time.

What we look for

• 8+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale data or production applications

• Experience building classic ML or GenAI systems.

• A passion for building and scaling early-stage products

• Ability to adapt in a fast paced environment.

• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.

• Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction.

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

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.

Local Pay Range

$228,600—$314,250 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Benefits

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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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