# Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - AI/ML Environments

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $166k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Scala, Java, Distributed Systems, Scalable Apis, Cloud-Native Infrastructure, Service-Oriented Architecture, Containerization, Dependency Management, System Observability
**Posted:** 2026-01-30

> Build AI/ML environment infrastructure enabling researchers to configure training and serving setups reliably. Requires 5+ years backend experience, strong Python/Scala/Java skills, and expertise in distributed systems and containerization.

## Job Description

## The impact you will have
- Build the infrastructure that enables ML and AI users to configure training and serving environments easily, reliably and reproducibly.
- Collaborate with other AI infrastructure teams to build the features that customers need to get more from the Databricks platform. Examples include improving performance of setting up virtual environments for short training and data processing sessions, improving observability to help customers debug when runs fail, etc.
- Interact with turnkey customers and product managers to envision new features and identify areas for improvement.
- Shape how developers and data scientists build and interact with AI on Databricks.

## What we look for
- 5+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering with a focus on building systems
- Strong programming skills in **Python**, **Scala** or **Java**
- Experience with **distributed systems**, **scalable APIs**, or **cloud-native infrastructure**
- Familiarity with **service-oriented architecture**, **deployment pipelines**, and **system observability**
- Strong product and ownership mindset — you care about building the right solution, not just any solution
- Strong understanding of **dependency management** technologies including virtual environments or **containerization** technologies.

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