Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform
229k – 314kMountain View, CASan Francisco, CAOnsite15+ YOE
Summary
Leads design and development of Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform using AI tools for company-wide decision-making. Requires 15+ years in large-scale distributed systems and technical leadership on production data systems.
About the role
The impact you will have:
- Design and run the cross-company Data Intelligence Platform, balancing data protection and shareability as we transition to a public company.
- Develop tooling and infrastructure to manage Databricks at scale across multiple clouds, geographies, and deployment types, including CI/CD, test frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Partner with tech leaders to influence technical direction and capabilities of Databricks products.
- Be customer 0 and trusted advisor to product leadership.
- Represent Databricks at academic and industrial conferences & events.
What we look for:
- AI first mindset - personal productivity augmented with AI for high-impact, complex initiatives.
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
- 15+ years of industry experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- 6+ years providing technical leadership on planet-scale production data systems.
- Experience leading architecture for performance-sensitive systems (e.g., latency-critical services, multi-tenant platforms, large-scale indexing pipelines).
- Strong communication skills and ability to operate in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
- Strategic mindset aligning engineering with product and company goals.
- Passion for mentoring and developing engineers.
Skills
AIDistributed SystemsData PlatformsCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeKubernetesApache SparkDelta LakeCloud InfrastructureData Pipelines
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