Software Engineer - Backend
Build high-performance backend services and client libraries for Databricks' cloud data platform. The role requires a bachelor's degree, 3+ years of production experience in a programming language such as Java, Scala, or C++, and experience with distributed systems and SaaS platforms.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Help build Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform and support its Lakehouse vision.
- Participate in the entire software development lifecycle as a founding member of the Belgrade engineering team.
- Solve product and infrastructure problems involving distributed systems, large-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration, and developer experience.
- Build reliable, secure, high-performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing large amounts of data on cloud storage backends such as AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage.
- Develop product features that enable customers to store and access their data easily.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
- 3+ years of production-level experience with Java, Scala, C++, or a similar language.
- Experience developing large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience working on a SaaS platform or with service-oriented architectures.
- Knowledge of SQL.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks tailored to employees' needs, with region-specific details available from Databricks.
Skills
Java, Scala, C++, Distributed Systems, SaaS, Service-Oriented Architecture, SQL, Aws S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Workflow Orchestration, Monitoring
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