Sr Platform Monitoring Engineer

The role

You will lead platform incident investigations and design observability solutions. You will develop monitoring solutions, alerting mechanisms, and customer-focused incident detection tools for the Databricks Platform.

What you will do

• Lead platform incident investigation and coordinate cross-functional teams
• Conduct post-incident root cause analysis across infrastructure, services, and cloud providers
• Design and implement customer-focused alerting pipelines and observability workflows
• Build automation tools and establish reusable monitoring patterns
• Resolve reliability gaps impacting customer experience
• Provide mentorship to junior engineers on observability patterns, alert design, and service health metrics
• Participate in on-call rotation

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, Production Engineer, or similar role
• Production-level experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Proficiency in container and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, etc.
• Ability to architect monitoring solutions that correlate metrics, logs, and traces
• Strong proficiency in Python or similar languages
• Experience owning critical phases of the incident lifecycle from detection through resolution and post-mortem analysis
• BS, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related Engineering field

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Equity

About the company

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.