Staff Software Engineer - Databases

Databricks

Bengaluru, IndiaPosted 1 month ago

Skill Required

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Key highlights

12+ years of professional experience required
Focus on MySQL and TiDB database engineering
Comprehensive benefits package

Role overview

At Databricks, we build powerful infrastructure that accelerates innovation and enables data teams to deliver with confidence and scale. Our unified schema migration platform underpins automated, observable, and developer-friendly workflows—ensuring Databricks can continue evolving rapidly across thousands of databases and 60+ mission-critical services. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll lead the design, development, and reliability of our global platform that manages schema and data changes at scale.

Responsibilities

Architecting and maintaining automated schema change infrastructure for MySQL and TiDB.
Implementing versioning, rollback, validation, and auditing for safe, predictable, and fast migrations.
Ensuring the platform operates across thousands of global databases with zero downtime.
Enhancing resilience, observability, and recovery of the platform.
Building a test harness for migration and deployment validation.
Designing intuitive tools and APIs for seamless schema and data change management.
Embedding migration workflows into CI/CD pipelines to increase velocity and reduce friction.
Designing infrastructure for safe, large-scale schema and data operations like backfills and purging.
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.

Requirements

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

Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees (region-specific details available via provided link).

Additional details

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog.
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