Sr Platform Monitoring Engineer
Databricks · United States
About this role
**Sr Platform Monitoring Engineer** At Databricks, we’re seeking an experienced Tech Lead to shape the future of **platform observability and proactive monitoring**. This is a high-impact technical role at the intersection of **platform reliability, incident response, and customer obsession**. You’ll serve as a critical first responder for the Databricks Platform—leading complex investigations, designing observability solutions, and driving systemic improvements that enhance **customer experience** and **platform stability**. --- ### What you’ll do - Lead platform incident investigation, coordinating cross-functional teams through rapid detection, mitigation, and resolution to minimize customer impact. - Conduct thorough post-incident root cause analysis across infrastructure, services, and cloud providers to identify systemic patterns and prevent recurrence. - Design and implement customer-focused alerting pipelines and end-to-end observability workflows to improve detection coverage and reduce mean time to detection. - Build automation tools, establish reusable monitoring patterns, and close reliability gaps that impact customer experience. - Mentor junior engineers on observability patterns, alert design, and service health metrics. - Participate in the on-call rotation. --- ### What we look for - Minimum **6+ years** experience as an **SRE, DevOps Engineer, Production Engineer**, or similar role. - Production experience with at least one major cloud provider (**AWS, Azure, GCP**) and proficiency with **Docker** and **Kubernetes**. - Hands-on experience with monitoring/logging/alerting tools such as **ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty** (and ability to architect monitoring that correlates **metrics, logs, and traces**). - Strong proficiency in **Python** (or similar) with the ability to build production-quality automation. - Experience owning critical phases of the incident lifecycle: **detection → resolution → post-mortem**. - BS/MS/PhD in **Computer Science, Computer Engineering**, or related engineering field. --- ### About Databricks Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics, and agents. (For benefits and regional details, see the posting link provided by the employer.)
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