Staff Product Operations Manager

P-375 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. As a Staff Software Engineer working on the Data Platform team, you will leverage bleeding-edge AI developer tools and techniques to help build the Data Intelligence Platform for Databricks that will allow us to automate decision-making across the entire company. You will achieve this in collaboration with Databricks Product Teams, Data Science, and many more. You will define the future of a variety of tools spanning logging, orchestration, data transformation, metric store, governance platforms, and data consumption layers, just to name a few.   The impact you will have: * Design and run the cross-company Data Intelligence Platform, which contains every business and product metric used to run Databricks. You’ll play a key role in developing the right balance of data protection and ease of shareability for the Data Intelligence Platform as we transition to a public company. * Develop tooling and infrastructure to efficiently manage and run Databricks on Databricks at scale, across multiple clouds, geographies, and deployment types. This includes CI/CD processes, test frameworks for pipelines and data quality, and infrastructure-as-code tooling. * Partner with our engineering teams to provide leadership in developing the long-term vision and requirements for the Databricks product. * Build reliable data pipelines and solve data problems using Databricks, our partner’s products, and other OSS tools. Provide early feedback on the design and operations of these products. * Represent Databricks at academic and industrial conferences & events. What we look for: * BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience. * 10+ years of industry experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems. * 4+ years of experience providing technical leadership on planet-scale production data systems  * Experience leading architecture efforts for performance-sensitive systems (e.g., latency-critical services, multi-tenant platforms, large-scale indexing pipelines). * Strong communication skills and the ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, cross-functional environments. * A strategic mindset with the ability to align engineering execution with longer-term product and company goals. * Passion for mentoring and developing other engineers. About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer in Test, who is passionate about testing large-scale, mission-critical software in a fast-paced agile environment. The ideal candidate will be partnered with Infrastructure teams to share our passion and great pride in the simple elegance and usability of our solutions. Okta engineering strongly believes in automated testing, UX design and an iterative process to build high-quality next generation software. The QA Core team is responsible for release based testing and validation, and developing test services that enable automation for other teams. QA Core also works closely with Release Engineering, Release Management, Technical Operations and Engineering Leadership to ensure our weekly releases across all services are completed on time and with high quality. This is a high impact role in a key area for Okta’s continued uptime and reliability. Job Duties and Responsibilities: Major areas of responsibility include: * Analyze/refine requirements with Development and Engineering Leads Partner with Engineering Management to scope and plan test efforts design and implement robust, scalable test solutions * Participate effectively in a scrum team environment. * Manage deliverables working under minimal supervision * Partner with Development and Release Teams to build and execute on product infrastructure growth and high availability * Understand Okta’s top customers usage * Review new changes going into test and staging environments * Ensure new changes are compatible with existing customer deployments and usage; develop new test services focused on release readiness and validation. * Understand and monitor customer usage patterns and translate them into test requirements for automated or manual testing. * Develop and execute end-to-end/system test plan. * Set up and maintain test configurations for end-to-end/system testing. * Prioritize and ensure that these patterns continue to function for every weekly release in our test and staging environments. * Review new changes going into test and staging environments. * Ensure that new changes are compatible with existing customer deployments and usage. Support the QA efforts of our software deployment and release teams. * This role includes participation in an on-call support. Minimum REQUIRED Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: * 7+ years of experience in software QA with focus on release based testing * 5+ years experience in software QA with a focus on release based testing. * 5+ years of experience working in a SaaS based environment *  5+ Experience working on both server and client side of device technology *  5+ Experience with some of the following technologies and services: * Selenium (preferably with Java) * TestNG * Log management tools (Splunk/Sumologic/Kibana) * Docker, Kubernetes * 4 years of experience writing SQL, and testing or building out integrated scenarios * 4 years of experience with Java-based test automation development * 4 years of experience with developing and executing end to end or system test plans 4 years of experience setting up and maintaining test configurations and lab environmentsEducation and Training:   B.S. or M.S. in Comp Sci, Comp Engineering, Software Engineering or a closely related technical field 8 years of experience as a quality engineer or software engineer   #LI-Hybrid P24974 The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. 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