Software Engineer Backend

Databricks is a data and AI platform that lets organizations build analytics, AI agents, and applications on a unified, governed lakehouse.

160 Spear Street, Suite 1300, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States
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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Skills

Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will build and operate backend infrastructure at scale. You may develop foundational cloud platforms, cloud-agnostic abstractions, and engineering tools that improve development, release, testing, and the Rust developer experience.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of professional software development experience or a PhD
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Java, Scala, or Go
  • Backend-system development and operations
  • Technical documentation
  • Communication

Responsibilities

  • Build foundational infrastructure platforms across geographic regions and cloud providers
  • Implement cloud-agnostic infrastructure abstractions
  • Develop tools and processes that improve engineering efficiency
  • Improve developer tooling, release pipelines, and test automation frameworks
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