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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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 build and operate Lakebase reliability systems, control-plane services, and network data paths. You will improve observability, define and measure SLIs and SLOs, investigate downtime, automate operations, and build reliable, secure, high-performance data services.
Requirements
- BS degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
- 8+ years of production-level experience with Java, Scala, C++, or a similar language
- Experience developing large-scale distributed systems
- Experience working on a SaaS platform or with service-oriented architectures
- Knowledge of SQL
Responsibilities
- Build and operate Lakebase reliability infrastructure and services
- Build and operate the Lakebase control plane
- Build the Lakebase proxy data path
- Define and measure SLIs and SLOs
- Find causes of downtime and remove root causes
- Build AI-powered operational automation
- Build reliable, secure, high-performance cloud storage services and client libraries