# Staff Systems Development Engineer (GovOps)

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: McLean, Virginia
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $153,400-$210,825 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

At Databricks, we enable data teams to solve complex problems by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform. Founded by engineers and customer-obsessed, we focus on solving technical challenges.

As a Staff Systems Development Engineer (GovOps), you will join our Cleared Engineering team in McLean, VA, serving as a technical authority for our platform across GovCloud, FedRAMP High, and air-gapped environments. You will operate as a technical force multiplier, architecting long-term system stability, driving fleet-wide supportability features, and eliminating systemic operational bottlenecks.

Key responsibilities:

- Architect High-Side Platform Reliability: Design end-to-end operational workarounds and resolve complex escalations within air-gapped and GovCloud enclaves.

- Bridge Engineering Boundaries: Act as the lead technical interface and escort between uncleared core engineering teams and secure facilities.

- Drive Fleet-Wide Supportability & Tooling: Author custom diagnostic tools, notebooks, and automated workflows to raise operational efficiency.

- Partner with Core Engineering: Collaborate with Product and Core Engineering leaders to root-cause platform defects and integrate long-term supportability features.

- Lead Critical Incident Response: Anchor high-consequence platform incidents and make authoritative technical calls.

- Uphold & Evolve Compliance Guardrails: Ensure platform interactions and deployment pipelines align with FedRAMP High, ITAR/IL5, and federal security benchmarks.

Requirements:

- Active TS/SCI security clearance.

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.

- 7+ years of experience in Systems Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Senior Support Engineering, DevSecOps, or a related technical operations role.

- Deep expertise in Linux/Unix operating-system internals, networking, process/resource debugging, and distributed systems.

- Hands-on proficiency in Python, Bash, Go, or Java.

- Experience managing, debugging, and operating cloud infrastructure across public or federal cloud boundaries.

- Solid working knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools and container orchestration mechanics.

Preferred qualifications:

- Active Counterintelligence (CI) or Full Scope Polygraph (FSP).

- Prior experience supporting AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS), isolated defense integration networks, or FedRAMP High / ITAR environments.

- Hands-on experience operating inside low-egress or fully air-gapped networks.

The pay range for this role is $153,400-$210,825 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- Linux/Unix operating-system internals
- networking
- process/resource debugging
- distributed systems
- Python
- Bash
- Go
- Java
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools
- container orchestration mechanics

### Nice to have
- Counterintelligence (CI)
- Full Scope Polygraph (FSP)
- AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS)
- FedRAMP High / ITAR environments
- low-egress or fully air-gapped networks

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