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.

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.

View jobs by Databricks

Skills

Candidate Availability

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

About the Role

You will work on backend challenges spanning product and infrastructure. You may build distributed systems, service architecture, monitoring, workflow orchestration, cloud-storage services, client libraries, scalable services, and data pipelines that support pricing infrastructure and platform usage features.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of production experience with Python, Java, Scala, C++, or a similar language
  • Experience developing large-scale distributed systems from scratch
  • Experience with a SaaS platform or service-oriented architectures

Responsibilities

  • Build distributed systems and service architecture
  • 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