The Core Experiences engineering team is responsible for building the next-generation platform and operating foundational platforms that support high-growth use cases and critical services within Databricks. You would be part of the team that focuses on enabling seamless access and interaction with core assets like Workspaces, Notebooks, SQL queries, and various serving infrastructures to support multiple user experiences.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our backend team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend systems that power Databricks workspaces. You will build the next-generation platform for serving workspace assets, ensuring high QPS, low latency, reliable, and performant systems, proactively addressing the future growth challenges. Additionally, 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:

Design, develop, and implement high-performance backend services and APIs that support Databricks workspaces.
Build and manage critical assets within Databricks workspaces, ensuring seamless integration and functionality.
Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code in Scala, Java and similar languages.
Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and ensuring code quality.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence.
Drive improvements in team coding practices, design patterns, and development processes.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, frontend engineers, to deliver high-quality software.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, ensuring system stability and performance.
Participate in the planning and execution of complex projects involving multiple teams and stakeholders.
Contribute to the design and scaling of our next-generation infrastructure.

What we look for:

BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.
15+ years of production-level experience in one of: Scala, Rust, Go, Python, Java, C++, or similar languages.
Deep experience in software development, in large-scale distributed systems.
Proven ability to design and implement robust backend systems and APIs.
Experience driving complex projects involving multiple teams and stakeholders.
Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
A passion for mentoring and guiding junior engineers.
Familiarity with log collection, health monitoring, and observability tools.

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks utilizes the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

Zone 1 Pay Range

$228,400—$328,600 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — 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. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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