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 and deliver scalable, available, fault-tolerant systems. You will debug and optimize production clusters, shape architecture and roadmaps, investigate production issues, lead complex projects, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
- Experience driving company initiatives toward customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- Deliver scalable, available, and 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.
- Plan and lead complex cross-functional technical projects.
- Lead engineering initiatives and technical review committees.
- Prototype and validate solutions for complex problems.
- Mentor engineers and lead sprint and project planning.