
Databricks · Bengaluru
P-1408 The Applied AI team at Databricks sits at the forefront of advancing AI/ML-powered products. Databricks’ customers are continuously creating new assets ...
The Applied AI team at Databricks sits at the forefront of advancing AI/ML-powered products. Databricks’ customers are
continuously creating new assets (tables, notebooks, dashboards, datarooms, pipelines, sql queries, ml models etc.) on the
platform. Some of them can have hundreds of millions of assets. Finding an asset is a critical user journey for Databricks’
customers which helps them accomplish their tasks.
As our Search product continues to evolve, we are seeking a Staff Engineer to lead enhancements to our Search Quality. In 2025, we
will focus on enhancing search ranking, improving query understanding, building robust evals and growing the coverage of assets to
enable seamless search at scale.
Key Responsibilities
products and services.
retrieval, and model evaluation, enabling rapid experimentation and iteration.
strategies and product roadmaps for the search and discovery experience.
What We’re Looking For
Why Join Us?
At Databricks, we are building state-of-the-art AI solutions that redefine how users interact with data and our products. You’ll
have the opportunity to shape the future of AI-driven products at Databricks, work with cutting-edge models, and collaborate with
a world-class team of AI and ML experts.
If you're excited about pushing the boundaries of AI in real-world applications, we’d love to hear from you!
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-1385 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 solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. Databricks Mosaic AI offers a unique data-centric approach to building enterprise-quality, Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions, enabling organizations to securely and cost-effectively own and host ML and Generative AI models, augmented or trained with their enterprise data. And we're only getting started in Bengaluru , India - across 10 new teams that we're setting up from scratch ! As a Staff Software Engineer at Databricks India, you can get to work across : - Backend - DDS (Distributed Data Systems) - Full Stack The impact you'll have: 1. Our Backend teams span many domains across our essential service platforms. For instance, you might work on challenges such as: * Problems that span from product to infrastructure including: distributed systems, at-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration, and developer experience. * Deliver reliable and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends, e.g., AWS S3, Azure Blob Store. * Build reliable, scalable services, e.g. Scala, Kubernetes, and data pipelines, e.g. Apache Spark™, Databricks, to power the pricing infrastructure that serves millions of cluster-hours per day and develop product features that empower customers to easily view and control platform usage. 2. Our DDS team spans across: * Apache Spark™ * Data Plane Storage * Delta Lake * Delta Pipelines * Performance Engineering 3. As a Full Stack software engineer, you will work closely with your team and product management to bring that delight through great user experience. What we look for: * 12+ years of production level experience in one of: Python, Java, Scala, C++, or similar language. * BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field * Experience developing large-scale distributed systems from scratch * Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures. 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-1346 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 solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. Databricks Mosaic AI offers a unique data-centric approach to building enterprise-quality, Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions, enabling organizations to securely and cost-effectively own and host ML and Generative AI models, augmented or trained with their enterprise data. And we're only getting started in Bengaluru , India - and currently in the process of setting up 14 new teams from scratch ! As a Staff Software Engineer at Databricks India, you can get to work across : - Backend (Infrastructure) The impact you'll have: Our Infrastructure Backend teams span many domains across our essential service platforms. For instance, you might work on challenges such as: * Problems that span from product to infrastructure including: distributed systems, at-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration, and developer experience. * Deliver reliable and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends, e.g., AWS S3, Azure Blob Store. * Build reliable, scalable services, e.g. Scala, Kubernetes, and data pipelines, e.g. Apache Spark™, Databricks, to power the pricing infrastructure that serves millions of cluster-hours per day and develop product features that empower customers to easily view and control platform usage. What we look for: * BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field * 12+ years of production level experience in one of: Python, Java, Scala, C++, or similar language * 6+ years experience developing large-scale distributed systems from scratch * Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures * Experience working on Infrastructure related projects is a plus 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-1346 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 solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. Databricks Mosaic AI offers a unique data-centric approach to building enterprise-quality, Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions, enabling organizations to securely and cost-effectively own and host ML and Generative AI models, augmented or trained with their enterprise data. The Money team's mission at Databricks is to maximize the value that our customers derive from their investments in data projects. We accomplish this through innovative commercialisation strategies, timely & accurate billing, cost optimisation tools, intelligent resource usage controls, and cutting-edge engineering. We provide a seamless and consistent experience set of platforms for all Databricks products to reach customers. As one of the first engineers for Money at Databricks India, you will be key to building a base for one of Databricks’ most central engineering teams. You will own critical components that form the backbone of our products, starting with Databricks’ resource admission control and usage governance infrastructure. Your role is crucial in helping bring diverse business needs together, including abuse prevention, product commercialisation motions, and reliable product availability at scale. You will work closely with infrastructure as well as product teams in bringing critical governance functionality to Databricks customers. THE IMPACT YOU WILL HAVE: * Own Money systems and services that govern usage of all Databricks products and offerings. * Enhance engineering and infrastructure efficiency, reliability, accuracy, and response times, including CI/CD processes, test frameworks, data quality assurance, end-to-end reconciliation, and anomaly detection. * Collaborate with platform and product teams to develop and implement innovative infrastructure that scales to meet evolving needs. * Provide leadership in long-term vision and requirements development for Databricks products, in partnership with our engineering teams. * Represent Databricks at academic and industrial conferences & events. WHAT WE LOOK FOR: * BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, or a related field * 12+ years of production level experience in one of: Java, Scala, C++, or similar language. * Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables. * Proven track record in architecting, developing, deploying, and operating large scale distributed systems. * Experience with software security and systems that handle sensitive data. * Demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to lead across functional and organizational boundaries. * A proactive approach and a passion for delivering high-quality solutions * Experience with cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes. 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.