# Team Lead - Platform Monitoring Engineer at Databricks

> Lead platform incident response and build monitoring and alerting systems, while leading and growing a team of platform monitoring engineers.

- Company: Databricks (databricks.com)
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Places: Bengaluru, India
- Posted: 2026-10-28
- Level: Team Lead
- Team: Platform Monitoring Engineering
- Apply: https://databricks.com/company/careers/open-positions/job?gh_jid=8788176002
- Page: https://ye.saranatour.dev/jobs/team-lead-platform-monitoring-engineer-databricks-kn72zxcq3s8e1e38retj3581wh8hd3n5

## The posting

Team Lead - Platform Monitoring Engineer
Databricks · Bengaluru, India

Team Lead - Platform Monitoring Engineer

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Team Lead to shape the future of platform observability and proactive customer monitoring. This is a high-impact technical role for someone who thrives at the intersection of platform reliability, incident response, and customer obsession.

The successful candidate will balance technical depth with people leadership: driving monitoring solutions, alerting mechanisms, and customer-focused incident detection tools, and raising the bar of the engineers around them. You will partner closely with cross-functional engineering teams to investigate and resolve incidents, drive root cause analyses, and champion solutions that improve customer reliability and stability of the Databricks Platform.

### **The Impact You Will Have**

Technical Leadership

- 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 future occurrences.
- Guide the design and implementation of customer-focused alerting pipelines and end-to-end observability workflows that expand detection coverage and reduce mean time to detection.
- Build automation tools, establish reusable monitoring patterns, and resolve reliability gaps that directly impact customer experience.
- Participate in and help structure the on-call rotation, leading by example during high-severity incidents.

People Leadership

- Collaborate with internal customer stakeholders to design and execute the customers' reliability plan, focusing on observability and monitoring.
- Participate in growing the local team of Platform Monitoring Engineers, including hiring and onboarding.
- Act as the local point of leadership and a connection to the broader global team, aligning local execution with global goals.

### **What We Are Looking For:**

- Minimum of 6 years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, CRE, Production Engineer, or similar role.
- 2+ years of experience leading engineers, whether as a people manager or team lead, with clear mentorship and coaching responsibilities.
- Production-level experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) and 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 with the ability to build production-quality automation tools.
- Experience owning critical phases of the incident lifecycle from detection through resolution and post-mortem analysis in demanding production environments.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional partners.
- BS, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or a related Engineering field.

**About Databricks**

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in S