Staff Software Engineer Core Experiences
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 critical platform dimensions including scalability, platformization, and reliability. You will design serving abstractions, re-architect systems for growth, improve developer onboarding, build impactful features, and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- 12+ years of production experience with Python, Java, Scala, C++, or a similar language
- Computer Science
- Large-scale distributed systems
- SaaS platform
- Service-Oriented Architecture
Responsibilities
- Own platform scalability, platformization, and reliability
- Design and scale serving-infrastructure abstractions
- Build consensus across stakeholders on platform trade-offs
- Re-architect systems for 10x to 100x scale growth
- Improve platform onboarding and developer experience
- Develop features that improve functionality and end-user experience
- Foster engineering quality and productivity
- Mentor junior team members