Senior Software Engineer App Framework
Databricks is a data and AI platform that lets organizations build analytics, AI agents, and applications on a unified, governed lakehouse.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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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 design, implement, and maintain core infrastructure and low-level software components. You will optimize performance, reliability, and scalability; work with JVM internals, memory management, concurrency, and distributed systems; resolve complex issues; contribute to architecture; and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
- 7+ years of professional software development experience
- Deep understanding of JVM internals, including garbage collection, JIT compilation, class loading, and the memory model
- Proficiency in a JVM language and its runtime environment
- Programming skills in Scala, Java, Rust, or other systems-level languages
- Experience with operating system concepts, including processes, threads, concurrency, scheduling, and I/O
- Experience building and optimizing high-performance, scalable, reliable systems
- Experience with distributed systems
- Performance profiling and tuning skills
- Experience with RPC frameworks
- Open-source contributions related to JVM or systems software
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain core system infrastructure and low-level software components
- Optimize system performance, reliability, and scalability
- Work with JVM internals, memory management, concurrency, and distributed systems
- Define technical strategies and roadmaps
- Mentor junior engineers
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architectural decision-making
- Troubleshoot complex system issues and provide resolutions