# Staff Software Engineer - Backend
**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Seattle, WA, Bellevue, WA
**Salary:** $182K-$247K
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Scala, Java, Spark, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, SQL, Terraform
**Posted:** 2026-01-30
> Staff Backend Software Engineer designs, builds, and operates scalable microservices for Databricks' data/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, distributed training, and MLflow.
- **Compute Fabric**: Build resource management infrastructure for big data and ML workloads, managing millions of virtual machines.
- **Data Plane Storage**: Deliver services for storing and accessing large amounts of data on cloud storage like AWS S3, Azure Blob Store.
- **Enterprise Platform**: Build services for onboarding and managing data teams with intuitive UIs.
- **Observability**: Build infrastructure for processing logs and telemetry to enable data-driven engineering.
- **Service Platform**: Provide libraries, tools, and services for developing reliable, scalable services across clouds.
- **Core Infra**: Build highly available distributed systems using Kubernetes across regions and clouds.

## Competencies
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field
- **10+ years** of production experience in Java, Scala, C++, or similar
- Comfortable working toward 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 (AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes)
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