Staff Software Engineer - Multi Cloud Efficiency

About the role

As a Staff Software Engineer at Databricks in Bengaluru, you will lead the technical strategy for the Multi‑Cloud Efficiency (MCE) chapter, building infrastructure that optimizes cloud spend across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will work with finance, cost, and product teams to create systems that automatically drive cost efficiency while maintaining performance and stability.

Key responsibilities

• Architect at Scale: Lead design and implementation of systems to optimize cloud spend, impacting hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Drive Technical Strategy: Identify and deliver high‑impact projects, define roadmap, and conduct design reviews and risk assessments.
• Engineer for Efficiency: Build scalable frameworks for regression detection, automated rightsizing, and efficiency footprints.
• Operational Excellence: Serve as technical authority for incident management and improve stability of internal platform tools.
• Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers, raise engineering quality, and foster a strong engineering culture.
• Build self‑driving efficiency systems: Design AI‑driven detection, decisioning, and autonomous remediation for continuous cost governance.

Required profile

• 9+ years of experience building production‑grade, distributed systems in Java, Scala, C++ or Go.
• Proven track record of architecting large‑scale infrastructure and cloud computing on AWS, Azure, GCP, with container orchestration (Kubernetes/Docker).
• Deep expertise in identifying and solving performance bottlenecks in high‑throughput distributed environments.
• Ability to drive technical requirements for ambiguous problems where the path forward is not obvious.
• T‑shaped engineering skills with depth in distributed systems and breadth across cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and software lifecycles.

Required skills

• Java
• Scala
• C++
• Go
• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• Kubernetes
• Docker