Technical Lead, Lakebase Manager (LBM)

Postgres
UNITED STATES
October 27, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: Databricks
Location: San Francisco, CA
Workplace Type: On-site
Employment Type: Full-time
Pay / Compensation: $182,400-$247,000 USD

About the Role

Databricks is building the world’s best data and AI infrastructure platform. You will join the Lakebase Manager (LBM) team as a Technical Lead, driving, building, and operating the central control plane for Lakebase, which provides a managed Postgres transactional layer for application state and workloads.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Drive architecture and design for the LBM control plane, owning the full database lifecycle (creation, deletion, wake-up/suspend).
  • Ensure high reliability by managing HA failover and maintaining computes on hot standby at scale.
  • Define SLIs and SLOs and drive long-term reliability improvements across the database lifecycle.
  • Write production code on the hardest parts of the team’s projects, utilizing Go and Rust.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • 8+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • Proven track record of technical leadership as an individual contributor, setting architecture through influence.
  • Strong hands-on depth: ability to design systems and write production code for reliability-critical services.
  • Experience operating highly available services (on-call, incident response, HA/failover).
  • Proficiency in Go or Rust; experience with PostgreSQL and Kubernetes is highly valued.
  • BS (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

  • Experience with Kubernetes.

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

  • Comprehensive benefits package.
  • Eligibility for annual performance bonus and equity.

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture and adhere to equal employment opportunity standards.

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