# Senior Software Engineer - Application Traffic team

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $166k – $225k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Java, Scala, Go, C++, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, GCP, Envoy
**Posted:** 2026-01-30

> Designs and builds service-to-service communication systems, ingress control planes, and overload protection for Databricks' multi-cloud infrastructure. Requires 5+ years in distributed systems, proficiency in Java/Scala/Go/C++, and cloud/container experience.

## Job Description

## Impact You’ll Have
You’ll work across three key areas:
- **Ingress Control Plane**: Build the control plane for Databricks’ global ingress layer. Enable programming of API gateways with static and dynamic endpoints, simplify service onboarding, and expose APIs securely across clouds.
- **Service-to-Service Communication**: Design scalable mechanisms for service discovery and load balancing across thousands of clusters. Provide networking abstractions for product teams.
- **Overload Protection**: Build intelligent rate limiting and admission control systems to protect critical services under high load.

## What We Look For
- BS (or higher) in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems
- Strong proficiency in one or more languages such as **Java**, **Scala**, **Go**, or **C++**
- Experience with service-oriented architectures and large scale distributed systems
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (**AWS**, **Azure**, **GCP**) and container/orchestration technologies (**Kubernetes**, **Docker**)
- Track record of shipping infrastructure that supports mission-critical workloads at scale

**Preferred**: Background in service discovery, DNS, load balancing, Envoy, or related networking systems.

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