Senior Software Engineer - Networking
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 9/23/2026
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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 build backend connectivity services supporting millions of virtual machines. You will lead the design and development of services connecting the control plane and compute plane, improve compute-plane scalability and cloud-resource efficiency, and collaborate to deliver robust networking systems.
Requirements
- 8+ years of production-level experience with Python, Java, Scala, C++, or a similar language
- 4+ years developing large-scale distributed systems from scratch
- Experience with SaaS platforms or service-oriented architectures
- Extensive networking domain experience
Responsibilities
- Build backend connectivity services for virtual machines
- Lead the design and development of control-plane and compute-plane connectivity services
- Improve compute-plane scalability and cloud-resource efficiency
- Collaborate with product management, operations, and engineering teams to deliver networking systems