Senior Software Engineer Backend
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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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 build infrastructure and products at scale for backend platform domains. You may develop serverless, cloud, partner integration, notebook, or application platform capabilities. You will improve performance, efficiency, reliability, observability, security, and developer experience across cloud environments.
Requirements
- BS or higher in Computer Science or a related field
- 5+ years of production-level experience with Java, Scala, Golang, C++, or a similar language
- Experience developing large-scale distributed systems
- Experience working on a SaaS platform or with service-oriented architectures
- Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or Kubernetes
- Experience with security and systems that handle sensitive data
Responsibilities
- Build scalable backend infrastructure and products
- Improve workload performance and efficiency
- Develop cloud, serverless, and container platform capabilities
- Improve service reliability, security, observability, and safety
- Build tools, frameworks, and platforms for service development and operation