Senior Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

About the role

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.

Key responsibilities

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering expertise.
• Deliver a highly scalable, available, and fault‑tolerant engine processing hundreds of terabytes of data daily across thousands of customers.
• Perform low‑level systems debugging, performance measurement and optimization on large production clusters.
• Design architecture, influence the product roadmap, and own new projects from concept to production.
• Use deep experience to prevent and investigate production issues.
• Plan and lead complex technical projects that involve multiple teams.
• Lead a TLG or similar review committee, or initiate organization‑wide engineering initiatives.
• Break down complex problems into solutions, validate prototypes, and de‑risk implementations.
• Act as a technical team lead by mentoring engineers, guiding sprint planning, and delegating work.

Required profile

• 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.