Senior Staff Software Engineer Backend
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 own product or infrastructure direction in a major area, from initial development through scalable delivery. You will design architecture, influence the roadmap, debug and optimize large production clusters, prevent and investigate incidents, and lead complex multi-team projects. You will mentor senior engineers, guide planning and reviews, and break down ambiguous technical problems through prototyping and validation.
Requirements
- 15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems
- Ability to work toward a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
- Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures
- Experience driving company initiatives toward customer satisfaction
Responsibilities
- Deliver scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant data-processing systems
- Debug, measure, and optimize performance on large production clusters
- Design architecture and influence the product roadmap
- Prevent and investigate production issues
- Lead complex technical projects across multiple teams
- Lead technical reviews and organization-wide engineering initiatives
- Mentor engineers, plan sprints, and delegate work
- Break down complex problems and validate solutions through prototypes