Staff Software Engineer - Databases

Overview

Staff Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and reliability of a global schema migration platform for safe, automated schema and data changes at scale.

What you'll do

• Architect and maintain automated schema change infrastructure for MySQL and TiDB.
• Implement migration versioning, rollback, validation, and auditing.
• Drive zero-downtime operations across thousands of global databases.
• Improve resilience, observability, and recovery for migration and deployment.
• Build a test harness for migration and deployment validation.
• Design tools and APIs for schema and data change management and integrate workflows into CI/CD.
• Design infrastructure for safe large-scale backfills and purging operations with monitoring, retry, and automation.

What you'll need

• 12+ years of professional experience in backend systems or platform engineering.
• Experience building platforms, infrastructure, or database engineering, especially with MySQL and TiDB.
• Track record of building and scaling mission-critical platforms for high-throughput global services.
• Experience with schema migration frameworks, CI/CD automation, and developer tooling.
• Experience creating clear, reliable, and user-friendly workflows.

Details

• Role involves scalability and reliability of schema and data operations across Databricks’ global footprint.