Description
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Backend to join our London site and contribute to our multi-year journey to build the best Lakehouse Platform. As a founding member of this team, you will be involved in the entire development cycle and exemplify all core Databricks values. Your impact will be significant, as you will work on challenges such as distributed systems, at-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration, and developer experience. You will also build reliable, secure and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amounts of data on cloud storage backends.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Developing product features that empower our customers to easily store and access their data
- Solving reliability problems related to Lakebase
- Actively finding causes of downtime and systematically improving or removing root causes
- Helping the org define SLIs, meet SLOs, and drive long-term reliability improvements
To succeed in this role, you will need:
- A BS degree (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
- 8+ years of production level experience in one of: Java, Scala, C++, or similar language
- Experience developing large-scale distributed systems
- Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures
- Knowledge of SQL
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