Senior Staff Software Engineer - Unity Catalog Runtime Enforcement

Databricks

P-1127 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 Delta DML team owns the core write-path operations for Delta Lake, the open-source storage layer behind the Databricks Lakehouse. Our mission is to deliver industry-leading performance and a seamless user experience at massive scale, with most data written in Databricks flowing through our platform.  We drive performance innovations like Low Shuffle Merge and Deletion Vectors and actively contribute to open source efforts to unify Delta and Iceberg formats. 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: * Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering. * Low level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters. * Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects. * Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services. * 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. * 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. * BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.   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.

Adyen

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.  For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. THE ROLE Every time someone pays online, there's a moment that determines whether the transaction succeeds or fails, not because the card was declined, but because the experience got in the way. That moment is authentication. And getting it right is one of the highest-leverage problems in payments. As a Senior Product Manager for Uplift & Shopper Authentication, you'll own how Adyen makes that moment as seamless and secure as possible for hundreds of millions of transactions across some of the world's largest merchants. You'll work at the intersection of conversion, trust, and user experience, helping Adyen move from rule-based friction toward intelligent, invisible authentication. You don't need to arrive with deep authentication knowledge. We are looking for sharp product instincts, the ability to hold complexity without losing sight of the user, and a track record of turning hard tradeoffs into better outcomes. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Own the authentication checkout experience: Identify where authentication introduces unnecessary friction, and build products that remove it without compromising security. You'll define what "seamless and secure" means in practice, and lead the roadmap to get there. * Make authentication seamless: Work with ML and engineering teams to develop smarter decisioning so authentication happens when it truly needs to, and doesn't when it doesn't. Success looks like merchants converting more, users noticing less. * Bring new methods to scale: From passkeys to device-based verification, the authentication landscape is evolving fast. You'll take emerging approaches from pilot to global rollout, sequencing thoughtfully across markets and merchant types. * Navigate a genuinely complex problem space: Authentication sits at the intersection of schemes, issuers, merchants, and end users, each with different incentives and constraints. You'll need to cut through that complexity and make clear product calls. * Partner across the organisation: You'll work closely with ML, engineering, design, commercial, and data teams, and occasionally with schemes and external partners. Strong alignment across those surfaces is part of the job. WHO YOU ARE * A strong product craftsperson: You have 5+ years in a product role where you owned meaningful outcomes, not just features. You know what it means to define the right problem, make a call under uncertainty, and drive it to delivery. * Conversion and UX minded: You think about the user first. You care about the moment of friction, the drop-off, the confusion, and you translate that into clear product decisions. Experience with checkout flows, onboarding, or consumer-facing experiences is a plus, not a requirement. * Comfortable with complexity: Authentication is technically layered and commercially nuanced. You don't need to know the protocols on day one. You do need to be intellectually curious, able to ramp quickly on new domains, and confident making decisions in ambiguous environments. * Data-fluent: You define success upfront, track it rigorously, and use metrics to make calls. * Direct and collaborative: You write clearly, frame trade-offs cleanly, and earn alignment rather than requiring it. You're comfortable pushing back on stakeholders and comfortable being pushed back on. WHY THIS ROLE Authentication is a problem that looks solved from the outside and is deeply unsolved on the inside. There's real technical depth here, a strong team, and a canvas that touches virtually every online payment Adyen processes. If you care about user experience at scale and want to work on infrastructure that most people never see but everyone depends on, this is a rare opportunity. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments  Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.  Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application! What’s next? Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility. This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

Adyen

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.  For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. Senior Product Manager, Global Acquiring Adyen's Global Acquiring team powers the core card payment infrastructure behind billions of transactions worldwide. Through our direct connections with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, Diners Club, JCB, and China UnionPay, we enable merchants to accept payments globally with industry-leading reliability, performance, and innovation. As a Senior Product Manager, you will own the strategy and roadmap for critical parts of our global acquiring platform. You'll build the products that improve authorization rates, maximize merchant conversion, strengthen platform reliability, and enable Adyen to launch new payment capabilities and expand into new markets. You'll work at the intersection of engineering, payment networks, partnerships, commercial teams, compliance, and operations to transform the complex payments industry into scalable innovative platform capabilities that benefit every Adyen merchant. Your work will shape how millions of payments are processed every day while ensuring our platform remains the most reliable and innovative acquiring solution in the industry. What you'll do: * Define and own the product strategy and roadmap for a critical area of Adyen's Global Acquiring. * Build scalable acquiring capabilities that improve payment performance, increase authorization rates, and maximize merchant conversion. * Partner directly with Visa, Mastercard, American Express and other global payment networks to influence roadmaps, implement new capabilities, and ensure ongoing compliance. * Drive complex cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, Partnerships, Commercial, Compliance, Operations and Product teams. * Translate changing scheme requirements into scalable platform capabilities rather than one-off merchant solutions. * Use data to identify opportunities that improve merchant performance, operational efficiency, and platform scalability. * Lead difficult product decisions through influence, aligning stakeholders across multiple organizations without direct authority. * Mentor other product managers and contribute to raising the overall quality of product management within the organization. Who you are: * You have 8+ years of Product Management experience building complex software products at scale. * You have domain knowledge in Payments or Fintech; preferably with knowledge of card acquiring. * You have successfully led highly cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, commercial teams, partnerships, and external partners. * You can simplify highly technical payment infrastructure into clear product strategies and business outcomes. * You are highly analytical and use data to drive prioritization and measure impact. * You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and consistently turn complex problems into scalable product solutions. * You are an excellent communicator who can influence senior stakeholders both internally and externally. * You care deeply about building products that create measurable value for merchants while strengthening Adyen's platform. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments  Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.  Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application! What’s next? Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility. This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.