Tech Lead Manager - Lakebase

About the role

Databricks is hiring a Tech Lead Manager for its Lakebase team in London. Lakebase gives teams a faster way to build applications with an optimised database developer experience, lakehouse integration and simplified operations, providing a managed Postgres transactional layer for operational data, analytics and AI. As one of the founding leaders, you will build out both the Lakebase product and the London presence.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you guide a small team of around five engineers while staying deep in the engineering work, spending most of your time on architecture, design, code and the hardest problems, and the rest leading and growing the engineers who report directly to you.

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 the team's projects.
• Set and uphold high technical standards through architecture reviews, testing and a culture of engineering excellence.
• Grow the engineers with clear feedback and career development.
• Align with partner teams on dependencies and unblock cross-cutting projects across the Lakebase stack.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to shape and deliver a long-term roadmap.

The team you will lead is one of three: Lakebase Platform Reliability (infrastructure, observability, SLI/SLO, AI-powered automation); Lakebase Proxy (the network edge handling all client connections and protocols such as Postgres, HTTP, WebSockets and the Data API); or Lakebase Storage (storage services hosting millions of customer databases, with a focus on delivery, operational excellence and 24/7 operation).

Required profile

• 5+ years of engineering experience, including time as a tech lead or senior engineer driving projects end-to-end.
• People management or at least tech lead experience; you are ready to take on direct reports.
• BS (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field.
• Ability to align multiple stakeholders on competing priorities and to balance short-term delivery against long-term stability.

Required skills

• Strong hands-on technical depth: designing systems and writing code, with deep knowledge of large-scale distributed services.
• Experience with large-scale distributed services and the processes around testing, monitoring and SLAs.