Senior IT Site Reliability Software Engineer

Databricks is a data and AI platform that lets organizations build analytics, AI agents, and applications on a unified, governed lakehouse.

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160 Spear Street, Suite 1300, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States
About Databricks

Data engineers, analysts, and AI teams use Databricks to process large datasets, build reliable pipelines, and train models on a single governed platform. Users can run SQL analytics, serve ML predictions in real time, and deploy AI agents grounded in enterprise data. Its open lakehouse architecture provides consistent security and governance across analytical and operational workloads.

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About the Role

You will own the evolution of core infrastructure and observability platforms. You will design cloud infrastructure with Terraform or Pulumi, optimize reliability and performance, build CI/CD pipelines, create observable-by-default infrastructure, build AI plugins and automation, and lead incident response including blameless post-mortems.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of production-level experience with strong Python
  • Expert-level Terraform or Pulumi
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP, Kubernetes, Docker
  • Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus or ELK
  • Proficiency with Kafka or messaging queues
  • Advanced knowledge of GitHub Actions and Runners
  • Ability to execute independently with minimal guidance

Responsibilities

  • Design and deploy production-grade infrastructure on AWS/Azure using Terraform or Pulumi
  • Optimize system performance, architecture and scaling for uptime and low latency
  • Architect CI/CD pipelines with hosted and self-hosted runners
  • Ensure internal applications have logging, metrics and alerts by default
  • Build internal AI plugins and automation scripts
  • Build dashboards and incident management workflows
  • Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response
  • Facilitate blameless post-mortems
  • Collaborate with Security, Engineering and Support teams