Staff Software Engineer
Databricks · Posted Nov 3
Data, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI intelligence platform services
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About the role
Databricks' engineering organization builds and operates the Data and AI platform used by thousands of enterprises worldwide, running one of the largest scale software platforms with millions of virtual machines processing exabytes of data daily. The teams build highly technical products that must gracefully handle cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults at scale. This Staff Software Engineer role owns product or infrastructure direction in a major area, leading complex cross-team technical projects, driving scalability and reliability, and mentoring senior engineers.
What you will do
- Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering.
- Deliver a highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers
- Low level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters.
- Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects
- Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.
- Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
- A strong influencer or driver in the organization’s roadmap and direction.
- Lead a TLG or similar review committee, or initiate and sustain an org/eng-wide initiative driven by engineering needs.
- Break down complex problems quickly into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, and de-risk (through prototyping/validation).
- Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 12+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
- Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
- Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
- Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
- Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Databricks
Databricks is a data and artificial intelligence company that provides a unified Data Intelligence Platform built on a lakehouse architecture. The platform combines data engineering, data warehousing, machine learning, and generative AI to help organizations manage and scale their data assets natively across major cloud providers. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark, Databricks enables thousands of enterprises worldwide to power advanced analytics, business intelligence, and autonomous AI agents.
- Industry
- Data and AI Platform Software
- Company size
- 17300+ employees
- Founded
- 2013
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Private Company
Funding
Private Company · $25.2B raised
- 2026-08-13Series L$5.0B
Leadership
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Co-founder and Executive Chairman
Chief Financial Officer
Co-founder and Chief Architect
Recent coverage
Databricks Newsroom
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Forbes
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