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.