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title: Staff Software Engineer - Backend
description: At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, so our customers can focus on the high-value challenges that are central to their own missions. As a software engineer with a backend focus, you will work closely with your team and product management to prioritize, 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). Some example teams you can join: 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 amounts 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. Competencies: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, or a related field 10+ years of production-level experience in one of: Java, Scala, C++, or simil…
date posted: 2026-04-18T15:41:55.276Z
valid through: 2026-10-01T14:02:50.515Z
direct apply: false
occupational category: Engineering
industry: Technology
skills: Java
skills: Scala
skills: C++
skills: Apache Spark
skills: Apache Kafka
skills: Cloud APIs
skills: AWS
skills: Azure
skills: CloudFormation
skills: Terraform
skills: SQL
skills: Software security
skills: Cloud technologies
hiring organization: Databricks
  type: Organization
  founding date: 2013
  number of employees: QuantitativeValue
    value: 4000
job location: Place
  address: PostalAddress
    address locality: San Francisco
    address country: US
employment type: FULL_TIME
base salary: MonetaryAmount
  currency: USD
  value: QuantitativeValue
    min value: 192000
    max value: 260000
    unit text: YEAR