Senior Staff Software Engineer (Backend)
Databricks
Bengaluru, IndiaPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
Executive Engineering - PipelineBackend DeveloperSoftware EngineerSoftware DeveloperSystem DesignData StructuresPrototypingEngineeringDatabricksdebuggingsecuritybuildingdesignUnityCloudAI
Key highlights
- Senior Staff Software Engineer role
- 15+ years industry experience required
- Work on large-scale distributed systems processing exabytes of data daily
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Lead high-impact projects and mentor senior engineers
- Inclusive and diverse workplace culture
Role overview
We are hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Databricks' Engineering team, reporting to an Engineering Leader. You will be part of the Databricks engineering organization, working with teams that develop Databricks products and features for thousands of enterprises worldwide. At Databricks, we build and run the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems—from security threat detection to cancer drug development. Our engineering teams develop highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs, operating one of the largest scale software platforms with millions of virtual machines, terabytes of logs, and exabytes of data processed daily. Our software must gracefully shield customers from cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults at this scale.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Serve as 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.
- Have full ownership of the product or infrastructure direction in a major area, driving it from initial development to scalable solutions with clear business impact.
- Serve as a force multiplier by elevating stability, reliability, and organizational processes.
- Bring deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems.
- Mentor senior engineers, contribute to recruiting, and lead high-impact company projects, often tackling complex problems beyond their comfort zone.
Requirements
- 15+ 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
- Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees (region-specific details available via provided link).
Additional details
- Reporting to an Engineering Leader.
- Part of the Databricks engineering organization, working with teams that develop Databricks products and features for thousands of enterprises worldwide.
- Databricks is the Data and AI company, with over 20,000 organizations worldwide (including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500) relying on the Databricks Data + AI Platform.
- 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.
- Databricks is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel, with hiring practices that are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards.
- Individuals are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
- If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.