# Sr. Staff Software Engineer — Observability, Insights & Governance

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington; Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $217,100-$298,550 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

We are looking for a senior technical leader to drive strategy and execution across three closely related teams at the heart of our mission: Query Observability, SQL Warehouse Management, and Account-Level Observability and Governance.

As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for establishing the long-term technical direction across query observability, warehouse management, and account-level governance, and owning the multi-year architecture all three surfaces are built on.

Key responsibilities include:

- Design and lead high-impact projects that move the needle on performance, reliability, and cost transparency for customers.

- Build the next generation of agentic observability and governance , extensible experiences that let users and automated agents investigate, diagnose, and act on telemetry across query, warehouse, and account.

- Partner deeply with Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog, AI, security, and platform teams to integrate end-to-end visibility and governance across the data plane and control plane.

- Mentor senior engineers, set the technical standards across the group, and recruit top talent into observability, insights, and governance.

Requirements include:

- 12+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, observability or governance platforms, databases, or backend infrastructure.

- A proven track record as a technical leader on teams operating in complex, multi-stakeholder environments , driving long-term architecture while still delivering incremental customer impact.

- Deep computer science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, systems design) applied to real-world, high-throughput problems.

- Experience with one or more of: observability and telemetry pipelines, query engines and query analytics, distributed tracing and metrics, time-series storage, data governance, or large-scale logging systems.

- Strong cross-functional communication skills , able to align engineering, product, and infrastructure partners across multiple teams on technical strategy and trade-offs.

We offer a competitive salary range of $217,100-$298,550 USD, depending on location and experience.

## Skills

### Required
- observability and telemetry pipelines
- query engines and query analytics
- distributed tracing and metrics
- time-series storage
- data governance
- large-scale logging systems

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