# Staff Software Engineer - Backend

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $192k – $260k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Scala, Java, Spark, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Docker, SQL, Terraform
**Posted:** 2026-01-30

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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**)

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