Staff Software Engineer - Backend
Designs, builds, and operates scalable backend microservices for Databricks' data and AI platform using Scala/Java, Spark, Kafka, and cloud technologies. Requires 10+ years experience in large-scale distributed systems.
About the job
Example Teams
- Data Science and Machine Learning Infrastructure: Build services for ML and distributed systems, including notebooks, IDE integrations, MLflow.
- Compute Fabric: Resource management for big data and ML workloads, managing millions of VMs.
- Data Plane Storage: Services for cloud storage like AWS S3, Azure Blob Store.
- Enterprise Platform: Onboarding and management services for enterprise customers.
- Observability: Platform for logs and telemetry processing.
- Service Platform: Tools for developing, deploying, and managing services.
- Core Infra: Highly available distributed systems with Kubernetes across clouds.
Requirements
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field
- 10+ years of production experience in Java, Scala, C++, or similar
- Comfortable working towards 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 (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes)
Skills
Scala, Java, Spark, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Docker, SQL, Terraform
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