Staff Software Engineer, Data Collection (Tags & SDKs)

At Databricks, we enable data teams to solve complex problems by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform.

As a Staff Software Engineer, Data Collection (Tags & SDKs), you will lead the collection stack end-to-end, including browser tags, mobile SDKs, server-side endpoints, and ingest paths.

The impact you'll have:

• Lead the collection stack from client to server side
• Define schema and versioning contracts for compatibility across SDK versions
• Handle identity across anonymous and authenticated records, devices, and sessions
• Integrate with other CustomerLake products like Profile & Campaign Agents
• Manage page weight, latency, and failure behavior to prevent degradation of host applications
• Collaborate with product management, design, and engineering teams to build scalable solutions

What we look for:

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including time as a tech lead or leading other tech leads
• Experience owning an SDK or client library consumed by external developers
• Knowledge of high-throughput server-side collection, edge endpoints, batching, retries, and delivery guarantees
• Ability to make pragmatic trade-offs and operate in 0→1 environments
• Strong collaboration skills across product, engineering, and design teams
• Experience with incident response for code deployed on customer properties is a plus

Pay Range Transparency The pay range for this role is $190,900-$253,750 USD.

Benefits Databricks provides comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees.