Staff Software Engineer - Databases
Databricks · Posted Nov 3
Data, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI intelligence platform services
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About the role
Databricks builds infrastructure for data teams, and this team owns a unified schema migration platform that underpins automated, observable, and developer-friendly workflows across thousands of databases and 60+ mission-critical services. The platform handles schema and data changes at global scale. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design, development, and reliability of automated schema change infrastructure for MySQL and TiDB, including versioning, rollback, validation, test harnesses, and CI/CD-integrated developer tooling.
What you will do
- Schema Migration Platform: Architecting and maintaining automated schema change infrastructure for MySQL and TiDB, while implementing versioning, rollback, validation, and auditing for safe, predictable, and fast migrations.
- Scale, Reliability & Test Harness: Ensuring the platform operates across thousands of global databases with zero downtime, enhancing resilience, observability, and recovery, and building a test harness for migration and deployment validation.
- Developer Experience & CI/CD Integration: Designing intuitive tools and APIs for seamless schema and data change management, and embedding migration workflows into CI/CD pipelines to increase velocity and reduce friction.
- Schema & Data management: Designing infrastructure for safe, large-scale schema and data operations like backfills and purging. This includes ensuring backfill operations are monitored, retryable, minimally disruptive, and automated to align with schema/data evolution and maintain data integrity.
- Ensuring the scalability and reliability of schema and data operations across Databricks' global footprint.
- Driving predictable deployments by architecting robust test harnesses and automation.
- Elevating the developer experience by building accessible, resilient tools that make complex migrations feel simple.
- Guaranteeing the integrity of both schema and data through safe, efficient backfill strategies.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 12+ years of professional experience in backend systems or platform engineering.
- Experience in building platforms, infrastructure, or database engineering, especially with MySQL, TiDB.
- Track record of building and scaling mission-critical platforms supporting high-throughput, global services.
- Experience with schema migration frameworks, CI/CD automation and developer tooling.
- Champion of developer experience, creating clear, reliable, and user-friendly workflows.
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
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