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DatabricksDatabricksMountain View, CA

Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Managed Tables

Senior engineer building autonomous analytical data systems for Unity Catalog Managed Tables, focusing on Predictive Optimization, Liquid Clustering, and large-scale storage innovations. Requires 15+ years building distributed systems and strong expertise in databases and performance optimization.

229k – 314k/yr
On-site15+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement next-generation autonomous analytical data systems for enterprise-grade performance
  • Develop storage lifecycle and background optimizations for Predictive Optimization
  • Create efficient storage structures and innovations for storage layout solutions in ML environments
  • Influence Data format and Catalog interface unification efforts
  • Enable strong ecosystem interoperability for ManagedTables
  • Solve real business needs at large scale through software engineering and collaboration with Product partners
  • Deliver a highly scalable, available, and interoperable architecture for Managed Tables
  • Perform low-level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters
  • Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership of new projects
  • Introduce tools to enable greater automation and operability of services
  • Prevent and investigate production issues
  • Plan and lead complicated technical projects across multiple teams
  • Mentor and up-level engineers on the team

Requirements

  • 15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, or performance optimization
  • Experience working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
  • Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures with real-world application
  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction
  • Motivation to deliver customer value and impact

Skills

Distributed SystemsDatabase SystemsStorage SystemsPerformance OptimizationAlgorithmsData StructuresLarge-Scale SystemsSystems DebuggingArchitecture DesignData Formats
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