Sr. Solutions Architect

Databricks

FEQ327R142 As a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect – Builder Team, this role designs, builds, maintains, and supports projects that integrate and extend the Databricks platform to accelerate data and AI use cases. The position contributes to the roadmap for specific priority projects, helps evaluate partner solutions, and delivers high-quality, production-ready implementations. This role also supports the infrastructure used to maintain Databricks Labs, enabling field engineering teams to contribute to tooling efforts more effectively. The ideal candidate brings strong customer empathy, a product mindset, and the ability to translate tooling needs into robust backend systems. The impact you will have * Build, debug, and extend multiple internal and public infrastructure components of the Databricks Labs ecosystem, with a focus on scalable and reliable backend services and automation. * Implement and maintain backend services, APIs, and automation tools that integrate with the Databricks platform and related ecosystems. * Author high-quality technical documentation, design proposals, and internal guides to scale knowledge and best practices across the organization. * Apply and contribute to engineering best practices, coding standards, and reusable patterns for Labs projects, ensuring consistent and maintainable solution delivery. * Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including Field Engineering, Product, and Platform Engineering—to clarify requirements, propose technical approaches, and deliver projects * Contribute to the evaluation, adoption, and integration of new technologies relevant to Databricks Labs and the automation tooling ecosystem. * Own the design and implementation of small to medium-sized projects end to end, and partner with Lead Specialist Solutions Architects on larger, cross-team initiatives. * Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and incident response, helping improve reliability, observability, and developer experience for field teams. What we look for * Experience delivering complex backend or infrastructure projects in iterative increments, balancing robustness and development speed. * Production experience of 6+ years in backend or infrastructure development, with proficiency in at least two of the following: Terraform, Scala, Go, Apache Spark, Java, Python; experience with at least one compiled language is required. * Passion for defensive programming and building highly scalable and reliable software. * Demonstrated fluency in modern AI and data technologies and proven experience integrating AI capabilities into production systems, such as embedding LLMs, recommendation models, or other ML services into backend applications with appropriate reliability, observability, and security controls. * BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including a track record of producing clear technical documentation, design proposals, and knowledge-sharing materials across teams. 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. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered 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, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Databricks

P- 1536 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started. The Partner Ecosystem team’s mission at Databricks is to enrich and win customer workloads through seamless integrations with strategic partners, while also widening the partner ecosystem to include new partners and data applications. This team enables seamless connectivity between Databricks and a vast range of partner applications through SQLDrivers. This vital data integration work powers the majority of the company’s Data Warehousing revenue by allowing customers to effortlessly connect their applications to Databricks SQL. In addition to that, through products like Databricks Partner Connect, we are simplifying the discovery and integration process, allowing you to seamlessly incorporate your preferred tools directly within the Databricks platform.  We are seeking an experienced Staff / Sr Staff Engineer to join our Partner Ecosystem team. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain SQL drivers that power the majority of the data warehousing traffic and critical infrastructure components that power our partner integrations. You'll focus on optimizing SQLDrivers for performance, improved reliability and telemetry to offer seamless connectivity to our partners and enterprise customers, while also maintaining open source repositories and actively engaging with the developer community. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements, architect solutions, and implement robust systems that enable our partners to connect seamlessly to the Databricks platform, ultimately driving Data Warehousing revenue and customer satisfaction.   The impact you'll have: As a Staff Software Engineer working on the Partner Ecosystem team, you will get to build and evolve a set of highly performant and resilient Databricks SQL connectors for partners and enterprise customers enabling them to connect to Databricks SQL seamlessly and derive meaningful insights from data. In addition to that, you will get to evolve our Partner Connect offering, helping grow the elite partner ecosystem within Databricks.You will achieve this by being customer obsessed, raising the bar on open source community engagement, being hands-on in building the product, closely collaborating with the product team. You’ll work on challenges such as: * Building reliable SQL connectors * Engage and grow the open source community around SQL connectors * Work closely with the SQL server teams, delivering new features to the SQL connectors, as per customer needs. * Work closely with product team to shape the future of Partner Connect, thus growing the partner ecosystem around Databricks What We Look For * BTech (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field * 10+ years of production level experience in one of: Java, Python, Go, or similar language * Comfortable working towards a multi-quarter vision with incremental deliverables * Proven track record in architecting, developing, deploying, and operating highly performant systems * Experience with open source communities through maintaining or contributing to open source repositories * Demonstrated ability to lead engineering projects across functional and organizational boundaries * Ability to navigate ambiguity and work with stakeholders to bring clarity and design innovative solutions to complex problems     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. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered 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, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Databricks

P-1533 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business.  Networking Infrastructure is a core part of the platform that powers all our data and AI products. The platform also powers key enterprise security features used by customers across all our products to build connectivity solutions to cloud resources and prevent data exfiltration. We are seeking an experienced Sr. Staff Software Engineer with deep networking expertise to help shape the future of Databricks’ Networking Infrastructure. As one of the early members of the rapidly growing Bangalore site, you will play a critical role in defining the technical vision and architecture for next-generation network connectivity & observability services that will power & manage millions of VMs across multiple clouds.  In this role, you will own and drive the design of large-scale connectivity platforms that form the backbone between Databricks’ control plane and compute plane. These platforms are foundational to improving the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of our compute infrastructure, while enabling more intelligent and cost-effective use of cloud resources. You will operate at an org-wide level, setting technical direction, leading complex cross-team initiatives, and mentoring senior engineers. You’ll work closely with product management, operations, and partner engineering teams to translate long-term business goals into durable, extensible networking systems. This role requires both hands-on technical leadership and the ability to influence architecture and execution across teams. This is a unique opportunity for a senior technical leader who enjoys working in ambiguous problem spaces and is motivated by solving novel, multi-cloud distributed systems challenges at massive scale. What we look for: * 15+ years of production level experience in one of: Rust, Java, Scala, C++, or similar language * 10+ years of experience developing large-scale distributed systems from scratch * Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures. * Experience with cloud networking, kubernetes, infrastructure automation languages like terraform, cloudformation, etc. 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. Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered 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, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.