Incident Manager

Incident Manager US Remote CSQ127R151 At Databricks, we are passionate about empowering data teams to tackle the world’s most challenging problems — from bringing the next mode of transportation to reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We achieve this by building and operating the world’s best data and AI infrastructure platform, enabling our customers to leverage deep data insights and enhance 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. As an Incident Manager, you will lead Databricks’ most critical production incidents while providing clear, accurate, and timely communication to customers, executives, and engineers. You’ll serve as both incident commander and reliability engineer; orchestrating multi-team responses, driving real-time status updates, and partnering with engineering to analyze and prevent failures. Your work will ensure Databricks maintains not only technical resilience but also customer and stakeholder confidence during high-impact events. This role combines operational leadership, technical systems knowledge, and exceptional communication skills. You will be at the intersection of engineering depth and operational clarity, ensuring that every major incident is managed with precision, transparency, and continuous improvement. The impact you will have here: • Lead critical incidents — coordinate multi-disciplinary response efforts across Databricks’ cloud-based services to rapidly mitigate impact and restore operations. • Drive technical root cause analysis and reliability improveme…