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DatabricksDatabricksMountain View, CA

Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Designs, builds, and operates scalable microservices for Databricks' data and AI platform using Scala/Java, Spark, Kafka, and cloud technologies. Requires 10+ years experience in large-scale distributed systems.

192k – 260k/yr
On-site10+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Example Teams

  • Data Science and Machine Learning Infrastructure: Build services for collaborative workspace, notebooks, IDE integrations, distributed training, and MLflow.
  • Compute Fabric: Develop resource management infrastructure for big data and ML workloads, managing millions of virtual machines.
  • Data Plane Storage: Deliver services for cloud storage like AWS S3 and Azure Blob Store.
  • Enterprise Platform: Build services for onboarding and managing data teams with intuitive UIs.
  • Observability: Create platforms for processing logs and telemetry to enable data-driven engineering.
  • Service Platform: Provide libraries, tools, and deployment platforms across clouds.
  • Core Infra: Build highly available distributed systems with Kubernetes across regions.

Requirements

  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field
  • 10+ years of production experience in Java, Scala, C++, or similar
  • Comfortable working toward multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
  • Experience architecting, developing, deploying, and operating large-scale distributed systems
  • Experience with SaaS platforms or Service-Oriented Architectures
  • Good knowledge of SQL
  • Experience with software security and sensitive data systems
  • Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes)

Skills

ScalaJavaSparkApache KafkaKubernetesAWSAzureDockerSQLTerraform

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