Senior Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Overview

Senior Staff Software Engineer (Backend) for Databricks’ engineering team, owning product or infrastructure direction in a major area and delivering scalable, reliable systems.

What you'll do

• Solve real business needs at large scale through software engineering.
• Deliver a highly scalable, available, fault-tolerant engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers.
• Perform low-level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters.
• Design architecture, influence product roadmap, and take ownership for new projects.
• Prevent and investigate production issues using deep software expertise.
• Plan and lead complicated technical projects across multiple teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and lead technical reviews or organization/engineering-wide initiatives.

What you'll need

• 15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Comfort working toward a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
• Experience driving company initiatives toward customer satisfaction.
• Ability to break down complex problems into solutions, knowns, and unknowns and de-risk via prototyping/validation.

Details

• Reports to an Engineering Leader.