Senior Staff Software Engineer - Backend
Leads the architecture, development, optimization, and reliability of large-scale distributed backend systems processing substantial data volumes. The role requires 15+ years of industry experience, deep systems expertise, cross-team technical leadership, and strong mentoring skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Solve real business needs at large scale through software engineering.
- Deliver a highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers.
- Perform low-level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters.
- Build architecture designs, influence the product roadmap, and own new projects.
- Prevent and investigate production issues.
- Plan and lead complex technical projects spanning multiple teams.
- Influence organizational roadmaps and direction.
- Lead a TLG or similar review committee, or initiate and sustain engineering initiatives.
- Break down complex problems into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, and de-risk them through prototyping and validation.
- Mentor engineers, lead sprint planning, delegate assignments, and participate in project planning.
Requirements
- 15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
- Ability to work toward a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
- Motivation to deliver customer value and impact.
- Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures, including real-world applications.
- Experience driving company initiatives focused on customer satisfaction.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks designed to meet employees' needs.
- Region-specific benefit details are available through Databricks.
Skills
Distributed Systems, Algorithms, Data Structures, Systems Debugging, Performance Optimization, Scalability, Fault Tolerance, Production Clusters, Architecture Design, Technical Leadership
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