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.

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Maintainer signals as of 9/23/2026

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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About the Role

You will work with your team to build infrastructure and products for a platform at scale. You will address distributed systems, service architecture, monitoring, workflow orchestration, cloud-storage services, client libraries, scalable services, data pipelines, pricing infrastructure, and platform-usage features.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of production experience with Java, Scala, C++, or a similar language
  • Experience developing large-scale distributed systems
  • Experience with a SaaS platform or service-oriented architectures
  • Knowledge of SQL

Responsibilities

  • Build infrastructure and backend products at scale
  • Address distributed systems, service architecture, monitoring, and workflow orchestration challenges
  • Deliver reliable high-performance cloud-storage services and client libraries
  • Build scalable services and data pipelines for pricing infrastructure
  • Develop features that let customers view and control platform usage
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