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Databricks

Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Databricks
onsite staff full-time $182,400-$247,000 USD Seattle, Washington
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First indexed 18 Apr 2026

Description

We are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems. As a software engineer with a backend focus, you will work closely with your team and product management to prioritise, design, implement, test, and operate micro-services for the Databricks platform and product.

This implies, among others, writing software in Scala/Java, building data pipelines (Apache Spark, Apache Kafka), integrating with third-party applications, and interacting with cloud APIs (AWS, Azure, CloudFormation, Terraform).

You will be part of one of the following teams:

Data Science and Machine Learning Infrastructure: Build services and infrastructure at the intersection of machine learning and distributed systems. Compute Fabric: Build the resource management infrastructure powering all the big data and machine learning workloads on the Databricks platform in a robust, flexible, secure, and cloud-agnostic way. Data Plane Storage: Deliver reliable and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends, e.g., AWS S3, Azure Blob Store. Enterprise Platform: Offer a simple and powerful experience for onboarding and managing all of their data teams across 10ks of users on the Databricks platform. Observability: Provide a world class platform for Databricks engineers to comprehensively observe and introspect their applications and services. Service Platform: Build high-quality services and manage the services in all environments in a unified way. Core Infra: Build the core infrastructure that powers Databricks, making it available across all geographic regions and Cloud providers.

This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/databricks/jobs/6779232002