Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Databricks is a leading data and AI company, seeking a Sr. Manager, Field Engineering – Lakebase to lead a specialized team of pre-sales Solutions Architects. This role involves engaging with strategic accounts to drive the growth of the Lakebase product offering while fostering a collaborative team culture and building long-term customer relationships.
Responsibilities
- Hire and manage a team of technical pre-sales Solutions Architects focused on Lakebase
- Build a collaborative culture within a rapid-growth team that embodies and promotes Databricks’ customer-obsessed, team-first, and diverse values
- Support our growing Lakebase business, focusing on customer value and enabling your SA team to drive technical adoption and consumption
- Support increased return on investment of Solutions Architect involvement in sales cycles
- Create trust-based, long-term customer relationships and deeply understand transactional databases (OLTP), along with data platform, data warehousing (OLAP), AI, app development and cloud market landscapes and trends, reporting on the forces that shift the strategic direction of accounts
- Promote a solution-, value-, and technical-based field engineering organization focused on modern data architectures, operational workloads, and AI-native applications
- Display an understanding of business needs and revenue potential for accounts in the assigned region
- Build Databricks’ Lakebase brand across the market in partnership with Marketing, Product, and Sales teams
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to translate customer feedback, technical requirements, and competitive insights into field readiness and product evolution
Skills
- 5+ years of first-line or second-line leadership experience, with teams of 7+ individuals (first-line) or 20+ individuals (second-line)
- Relevant high-growth enterprise software pre-sales success with senior-level tenure at a reputable software company, with experience in transactional (OLTP) database technologies, ideally including data warehousing, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, or AI solutions
- Ability to elevate executive engagement with a track record of driving large consumption and high-growth customers
- Proven leadership ability to influence, develop, and empower your team to achieve objectives with a team approach
- Proven track record of transformational success and delivery of customer value
- Track record of building strong ecosystems of strategic customer relationships and cross-functional partnerships (Sales, Engineering, Product, Marketing)
- Experience in complex strategic accounts generating $1M+ ARR
- Knowledgeable in and passionate about data-driven decisions, AI, cloud software models, operational data systems, and modern database architectures
- Great at instituting processes for technical field members to improve efficiency and execution
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience
- Up to 30% travel at times
Benefits
- Eligibility for annual performance bonus
- Equity
- Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees
Company Overview
Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.databricks.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Databricks has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 72 in 2026, 385 in 2025, 319 in 2024, 227 in 2023, 222 in 2022, 166 in 2021, 64 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.