# Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Observability

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $235k – $295k/yr
**Experience:** 15+ years
**Skills:** Go, Python, Java, Scala, Rust, C++, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP
**Posted:** 2026-02-01

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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