Staff Software Engineer

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Databricks' Engineering team reporting to an Engineering Leader.

You will be part of the Databricks engineering organisation, working with teams that develop Databricks products and features for thousands of enterprises worldwide.

As an executive engineering individual contributor at Databricks, you will have full ownership of the product or infrastructure direction in a major area, driving it from initial development to scalable solutions with clear business impact.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Solving real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering skills
• Delivering a highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers
• Low-level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimisation on large production clusters
• Building architecture design, influencing product roadmap, and taking ownership and responsibility over new projects
• Using your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues
• Planning and leading complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company
• Acting as a strong influencer or driver in the organisation's roadmap and direction
• Leading a TLG or similar review committee, or initiating and sustaining an org/eng-wide initiative driven by engineering needs
• Breaking down complex problems quickly into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, and de-risking through prototyping and validation
• Contributing as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, leading sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members, and participating in project planning

Requirements:

• 12+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems
• 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: Databricks strives to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all its employees.