Production Engineer
Posted 7 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Senior Production Engineer - Realtime Products”
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- Level
- CSQ127R154
- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
No salary listed for this role.
Field of studyComputer Science (or related)
Study levelBachelor's
CSQ127R154
As a Senior Production Engineer working on Databricks’ realtime products you will be directly contributing to our customers’ success. You will build advanced monitoring and incident mitigation tooling, and drive changes across the stack to proactively make the realtime products like Lakebase, Neon and Model Serving reliable, secure, and scalable in production.
Our production engineers understand the Databricks platform from end to end, and partner across engineering teams, building durable solutions for a platform operating across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
The Impact You’ll Have
Observability
- Build advanced monitoring and detection capabilities that give early warning of issues and deep insights into workload performance and customer experience.
- Build reliable, observable automation for debugging and incident mitigation.
Reliability
- Improve service reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Develop dependable, safe, mitigations for production issues.
On-Call & Incident Response
- Participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation and lead incident response and mitigation.
- Perform root-cause analysis, identify and implement lasting corrective actions.
- Partner with Product Engineering, Security, Support, and other infrastructure teams on follow up actions.
What We Look For
Experience
- 5+ years of experience in Production Engineering, Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), infrastructure engineering, backend software engineering, or a related field.
- Experience in holistic monitoring and alerting of complex stateful systems, applying multiple strategies like workload alerting, anomaly detection and probing.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, or related managed databases or distributed systems.
- Experience in incident management and participating in on-call rotations for critical infrastructure.
Skillset
- A mindset focused on automation, root-cause resolution, and continuous improvement.
- Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Python, Go, Java, Scala, or similar.
- Proficiency with infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code.
- Ability to work across system boundaries and collaborate effectively during complex incidents, and engage with customers’ infrastructure teams.