# Sr. Software Engineer - Performance

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: Mountain View, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,000-$225,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform.

As a performance engineer, you will work closely with multiple teams across the company to evaluate the performance of products and features, identify performance bottlenecks, and partner with engineers to solve performance and scalability issues.

The impact you will have:

- Identify performance limitations of the entire stack based on telemetry, customer signals, PoCs, and competitive benchmarks.

- Set performance expectations for all cross-cutting efforts early on through specialized benchmarks.

- Understand the performance characteristics of compute instance types, storage layers, and cloud services.

- Work with customers to root cause and mitigate performance problems.

What We Look For:

- BS (or higher degree) in Computer Science, or a related field.

- Experience in performance analysis discipline.

- Experience in software development, preferably in large-scale distributed systems.

- Ability to measure and document the impact of performance features.

- Ability to build strong working relationships with developers and field engineers.

Pay Range Transparency The pay range for this role is $166,000-$225,000 USD.

Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all our employees.

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science
- performance analysis
- software development
- large-scale distributed systems

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