Sr 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 software engineering.
• Deliver a highly scalable, available, and fault‑tolerant engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers.
• Perform low‑level systems debugging, performance measurement and optimization on large production clusters.
• Build architecture designs, influence the product roadmap, and take ownership of new projects.
• Use deep experience to prevent and investigate production issues.
• Plan and lead complicated technical projects that involve multiple teams.
• Lead a TLG or similar review committee, or initiate and sustain organization‑wide engineering initiatives.
• Break down complex problems quickly into potential solutions, de‑risk through prototyping and validation.
• Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, leading sprint planning, and delegating work.

Required profile

• 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large‑scale distributed systems.
• Comfortable working towards 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 towards customer satisfaction.