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title: Senior Staff Software Engineer (Backend)
description: We are hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Databricks' Engineering team reporting to an Engineering Leader. You will be part of the Databricks engineering organization, 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. You will serve as a force multiplier by elevating stability, reliability, and organizational processes, while bringing deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems. You will mentor senior engineers, contribute to recruiting, and lead high-impact company projects, often tackling complex problems beyond their comfort zone. At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. 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. Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We develop and operate one of the largest scale software platforms. The fleet consists of millions of virtual machines, generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day. At our scale, we regularly observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above. The Impact you will have: Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering. Deliver 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 & optimization on large production clusters. Build archit…
date posted: 2026-04-18T15:55:41.296Z
valid through: 2026-10-01T14:02:50.515Z
direct apply: false
occupational category: Engineering
industry: Technology
skills: large-scale distributed systems
skills: software engineering
skills: scalable solutions
skills: algorithms
skills: data structures
hiring organization: Databricks
  type: Organization
  founding date: 2013
  number of employees: QuantitativeValue
    value: 4000
job location: Place
  address: PostalAddress
    address locality: Bengaluru
    address country: IN
employment type: FULL_TIME