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DatabricksDatabricksMountain View, CA

Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Observability

Develops observability platforms handling billions of time series and petabytes of logs across global cloud regions. Requires 15+ years in systems languages, distributed systems, cloud tech, and mentoring engineers.

235k – 295k/yr
On-site15+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

The impact you'll have:

  • Build the next generation of observability platforms that support billions of active time series and process petabytes of logs daily.
  • Manage infrastructure across nearly a hundred cloud regions, enabling all Databricks engineers and customers to monitor the reliability of our product.
  • Develop advanced workflows that accelerate incident diagnosis for Bricksters, allowing engineers to quickly derive insights from logs and metrics.
  • Uplevel monitoring and reliability practices across Databricks engineering, developing opinionated tools that set common standards for managing structured logs, metrics, alerts, dashboards, and oncall rotations.
  • Mentor and uplevel engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence within the team and broader observability community.

What we look for:

  • BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.
  • 15+ years of production-level experience in one of: Go, Python, Java, Scala, Rust, C++, or similar languages.
  • Experience in software development, in large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience driving large projects involving multiple teams.
  • Experience with cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with observability infrastructure, monitoring patterns, and reliability practices.

Skills

GoPythonJavaScalaRustC++KubernetesDockerAWSGCP

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