Senior Staff Software Engineer
Databricks
P-1091
About the Team
The Databricks SQL Experience team at Databricks focuses on creating an incredible data analytics, discovery and governance experience on top of the Databricks platform. They develop highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant SaaS services that manage high production traffic and leverage AI technology to manage complex workflows for large enterprise customers.
Mission
Our mission is to enable Databricks users to create, discover, share, and govern their data assets by delivering simple and efficient tools that leverage rich metadata and AI strengths. We provide organizations with deep insights into their assets to help them collaborate effectively and make data-driven decisions.
Outcomes
As the senior technical lead, you will help the team achieve the mission by driving the technical direction of highly scalable and performant data and AI systems, working across partner teams to create technical clarity and alignment, and collaborating with senior leadership to build the product strategy and roadmap.
You will report to the Director of Engineering.
What You’ll Do
- Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your deep technical knowledge and analytical skills.
- Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.
- Low-level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters.
- Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services.
- Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.
- Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
- Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.
Requirements
Describe what this executive needs to have proven experience in to accomplish in this role.
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of hands-on experience developing highly scalable distributed systems
- 5+ years of technical leadership experience building complex production systems
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a demonstrable bias toward action.
Ability to effectively collaborate and communicate with technical peers and cross-functional partners.
What We Look For
- 15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with distributed systems, databases, and big data systems (Apache Spark, Hadoop).
- Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
- Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
- Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
- Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision
- Equity awards
- Flexible time off
- Paid parental leave
- Family Planning
- Gym reimbursement
- Annual personal development fund
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Mental wellness resources
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About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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