Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

Overview

Databricks is the data and AI company. We build software that enables data teams to solve large-scale problems and operate one of the largest data platforms in the world. We serve customers from startups to Fortune 500 companies and operate globally from offices around the world.

The Delta DML team owns the core write-path operations for Delta Lake, the open-source storage layer behind the Databricks Lakehouse. Our mission is to deliver industry-leading performance and a seamless user experience at massive scale, with most data written in Databricks flowing through our platform. We drive performance innovations and actively contribute to open source efforts to unify Delta and Iceberg formats.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our backend team. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems that power Databricks workspaces. You will build the next-generation platform for serving workspace assets, ensuring high QPS, low latency, reliability, and scalability. As a senior member of the team, you will provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers, contributing to the overall improvement of team coding practices and system designs.

The Impact you will have

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering expertise.
• Low level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters.
• Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership of new projects.
• Introduce tools to enable greater automation and operability of services.
• Leverage deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.
• Plan and lead complicated technical projects that involve multiple teams.
• Contribute as a technical team lead by mentoring others, leading sprint planning, and delegating work.

What we look for

• 15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Comfortable working toward 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 toward customer satisfaction.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow.

Benefits

Databricks strives to provide comprehensive benefits and perks. For specific details on benefits in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. Our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards, without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, or other protected characteristics.

Compliance

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