Senior Staff Software Engineer - Backend

P-1385

We are hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Databricks' Engineering team
reporting to an Engineering Leader. You will be part of the Databricks
engineering organization, working with teams that develop Databricks products
and features for thousands of enterprises worldwide.

Key Characteristics

As an executive engineering individual contributor at Databricks, you will have
full ownership of the product or infrastructure direction in a major area,
driving it from initial development to scalable solutions with clear business
impact. You will serve as a force multiplier by elevating stability,
reliability, and organizational processes, while bringing deep expertise in
large-scale distributed systems. You will mentor senior engineers, contribute to
recruiting, and lead high-impact company projects, often tackling complex
problems beyond their comfort zone.

Job Description

At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's
toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We
do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure
platform, so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are
central to their own missions.

Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real,
important needs in the world. We develop and operate one of the largest scale
software platforms. The fleet consists of millions of virtual machines,
generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day. At our
scale, we regularly observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system
faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the
above.

The Impact You Will Have

* Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software
engineering.
* Deliver a highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant engine processing
hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers
* Low level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large
production clusters.
* Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and
responsibility over new projects
* Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.
* Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams
within the company.
* A strong influencer or driver in the organization’s roadmap and direction.
* Lead a TLG or similar review committee, or initiate and sustain an
org/eng-wide initiative driven by engineering needs.
* Break down complex problems quickly into potential solutions, knowns, and
unknowns, and de-risk (through prototyping/validation).
* Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint
planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in
project planning.

What We Look For

* 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed
systems.
* Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental
deliverables.
* Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
* Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use
cases.
* Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction.

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
[https://twitter.com/databricks], LinkedIn
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/databricks] and Facebook
[https://www.facebook.com/databricksinc].

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
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/154un3e8Xav4BceOSlcYFZRGEuQI54xMxVydRwQn54eQ/edit?usp=sharing].

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.