
Databricks · Bengaluru
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 realit...
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.
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.
(P-1174) 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 Characteristics As an executive engineering individual contributor at Databricks, you will have full ownership of the product or infrastructure direction in a major area, driving it from initial development to scalable solutions with clear business impact. You will serve as a force multiplier by elevating stability, reliability, and organizational processes, while bringing deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems. You will mentor senior engineers, contribute to recruiting, and lead high-impact company projects, often tackling complex problems beyond their comfort zone. Job Description At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are central to their own missions. Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We develop and operate one of the largest scale software platforms. The fleet consists of millions of virtual machines, generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day. At our scale, we regularly observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above. The Impact you will have: * Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering. * Deliver a highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers * Low level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters. * Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects * Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues. * Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company. * A strong influencer or driver in the organization’s roadmap and direction. * Lead a TLG or similar review committee, or initiate and sustain an org/eng-wide initiative driven by engineering needs. * Break down complex problems quickly into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, and de-risk (through prototyping/validation). * Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning. What we look for: * 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. 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.
(P-1174) 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.
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.