Staff Software Engineer Databases
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 lead the design, development, and reliability of a platform for large-scale schema and data changes. You will build migration infrastructure, test harnesses, developer tools, APIs, and CI/CD integrations, while ensuring safe backfills, purges, observability, recovery, and data integrity.
Requirements
- 12+ years of professional experience in backend systems or platform engineering
- Experience building platforms, infrastructure, or database engineering systems
- Experience with MySQL and TiDB
- Track record of scaling mission-critical platforms for high-throughput global services
- Experience with schema migration frameworks, CI/CD automation, and developer tooling
- Developer experience expertise
Responsibilities
- Architect and maintain automated schema-change infrastructure for MySQL and TiDB
- Implement migration versioning, rollback, validation, and auditing
- Ensure platform reliability, resilience, observability, and recovery across global databases
- Build test harnesses for migration and deployment validation
- Design tools and APIs for schema and data change management
- Embed migration workflows into CI/CD pipelines
- Design safe, monitored, retryable, and automated backfill and purge infrastructure
