# Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Managed Tables

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $229k – $314k/yr
**Experience:** 15+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Database Systems, Storage Systems, Performance Optimization, Algorithms, Data Structures, Large-Scale Systems, Systems Debugging, Architecture Design, Data Formats
**Posted:** 2026-05-19

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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