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Staff Software Engineer

Leads development of Money systems governing usage, billing-related infrastructure, and resource governance across Databricks products. The role requires 12+ years of production software experience, distributed-systems expertise, cloud technologies, security experience, and cross-functional technical leadership.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Own Money systems and services that govern usage of all Databricks products and offerings.
  • Improve engineering and infrastructure efficiency, reliability, accuracy, and response times, including CI/CD processes, test frameworks, data quality assurance, end-to-end reconciliation, and anomaly detection.
  • Collaborate with platform and product teams to develop and implement innovative infrastructure that scales to meet evolving needs.
  • Provide leadership in long-term vision and requirements development for Databricks products in partnership with engineering teams.
  • Represent Databricks at academic and industrial conferences and events.

Requirements

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
  • 12+ years of production-level experience in Java, Scala, C++, or a similar language.
  • Comfortable working toward a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
  • Proven track record architecting, developing, deploying, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience with software security and systems that handle sensitive data.
  • Demonstrated leadership skills and ability to lead across functional and organizational boundaries.
  • Proactive approach and passion for delivering high-quality solutions.
  • Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and perks tailored to regional employee needs.

Skills

Java, Scala, C++, Distributed Systems, Software Security, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Data Quality Assurance, Anomaly Detection

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