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 9/23/2026
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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 own product or infrastructure direction in a major area and turn initial development into scalable solutions. You will debug and optimize production clusters, prevent and investigate incidents, design architecture, lead complex projects, mentor engineers, and drive engineering-wide initiatives.
Requirements
- 15+ years of industry experience
- Experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems
- Ability to work toward a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
- Algorithms
- Data structures
- Experience driving company initiatives toward customer satisfaction
Responsibilities
- Solve business needs at large scale
- Deliver scalable, available, fault-tolerant data-processing systems
- Debug, measure, and optimize large production clusters
- Design architecture and influence product roadmaps
- Prevent and investigate production issues
- Plan and lead complex cross-team technical projects
- Lead engineering review committees or engineering-wide initiatives
- De-risk complex problems through prototyping and validation
- Mentor engineers and lead sprint and project planning