Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack

Databricks

P-925 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. As a Staff Engineer on the User Activation team, you will play a critical role in driving the technical vision, architecture, and execution for horizontal product experiences that accelerate customer adoption and growth. Sitting at the entry point for all Databricks customers, you will help guide a team of ~20 software engineers to create seamless onboarding flows, intuitive workspace experiences, and partner integrations that power Databricks expansion. The impact you'll have:  * Define and drive the strategy for customer onboarding, workspace experience, account management, and other horizontal product experiences. * Partner closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build intuitive, scalable, and extensible solutions that drive product-led growth. * Lead architectural decisions to ensure performance, reliability, and simplicity across core user flows. * Hands-on full-stack software development to create dynamic, user-centric experiences. * Drive best practices for engineering excellence, including design reviews, code quality, testing strategies, and performance optimizations. * Collaborate cross-functionally with teams developing vertical product experiences (Lakehouse Platform, SQL Warehouse, AI/BI Dashboards) and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration and innovation.   What we look for: * 15+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of technical leadership and impact.   * 5+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers.   * Expertise in Front End or Full Stack development.   * Experience designing and building scalable SaaS platforms, onboarding flows, or customer growth-focused product experiences.   * Expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and modern web application architectures.   * Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives.   * Passion for the data intelligence space. Why Join us? * Work on high-impact, high-visibility initiatives that directly contribute to Databricks' growth trajectory. * Lead and mentor a talented team of engineers solving challenging, customer-centric problems. * Drive innovation in a fast-paced, data-driven environment where your work shapes the future of the company. If you are passionate about building seamless, scalable experiences that fuel product-led growth, we would love to hear from you!     Pay Range Transparency Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected 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 anticipates utilizing 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.   Local Pay Range $192,000—$260,000 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. 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.

Lyft

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Luxury team builds rich and creative features that set the standard for the ride sharing industry. We are looking for a motivated staff engineer to join us building app experiences, UIs, and infrastructure for Black, Black SUV, and other upmarket modes for which quality is uncompromising. Ownership is a key quality for this team; you should be driven to track a project to successful completion and beyond, taking initiative to work with other teams and functions to ensure the code you write reaches users and drives impact. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will act as a critical technical leader across backend, frontend, iOS, and Android, taking holistic ownership of complex systems, defining strategic roadmaps, driving cross-functional alignment and engineering excellence to improve the luxury experience. You'll collaborate with engineering, product, data science, analytics, and operations on programs that empower us to iterate quickly, delighting our passengers and drivers.    RESPONSIBILITIES: * Shape the long-term architecture for full-stack systems, taking accountability for both short-term functionality and long-term health. * Translate high-level business goals into actionable engineering projects. Own the technical roadmap from conception to delivery, managing cross-team dependencies and mitigating risks. * Champion improvements in system, observability, performance, and tech debt reduction, extending your influence beyond your immediate team. * Establish best practices for deployment, alerting, and on-call health. Take holistic ownership of the platform's stability, tracking down issue root causes and building preventive safeguards for your immediate scope and beyond. * Drive alignment across product, design, and operations. Proactively resolve bottlenecks and make decisive trade-offs to protect system architecture from competing organizational priorities. * Mentor and level up the engineers around you. Delegate stretch opportunities, lead cross-team reviews, and foster a culture of strong technical excellence. * Serve as a dependable, high-bar interviewer and active participant in Lyft’s broader internal engineering community. EXPERIENCE: * 8+ years of software engineering industry experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership and system ownership.  * Experience developing mobile apps and can guide client-server and iOS/Android decision making. * Deep expertise in designing, debugging, and running fault-tolerant, highly available, large-scale distributed systems. * Demonstrated experience driving technical roadmaps, managing cross-team dependencies, and influencing system architecture at an organizational level. * Solid knowledge of distributed systems, relational databases, and NoSQL databases. * Experience working with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure) and modern container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, cri-o). * Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. BENEFITS: * Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled * Mental health benefits * Family building benefits * Child care and pet benefits * 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future * In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off * 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible * Subsidized commuter benefits * Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership Lyft is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Lyft highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Lyft considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Lyft offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid The expected base pay range for this position in the San Francisco area is $176,000 - $220,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

Okta

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Identity Threat Protection Team Identity Threat Protection (ITP), powered by cutting-edge Okta AI, shatters the mold of traditional login security. We deliver real-time, surgical defense against the most sophisticated and rapidly evolving threats. By deeply integrating with existing security infrastructure, ITP relentlessly analyzes user behavior and system data to proactively hunt down and neutralize risks before they impact our customers. Join an elite team of full-stack engineers, visionary data scientists, and pioneering ML engineers. We are not just redefining cloud authentication—we are engineering the next-gen security platform that continuously evaluates global threats and constructs a comprehensive, dynamic risk. ITP stands as the uncompromising guardian of trust and security, placing decisive risk prioritization at the core of every authentication and authorization decision. Identity Threat Protection with Okta AI The Staff Software Engineer Opportunity Okta is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to be a driving force on the ITP engineering team. This is your chance to dive into the deep end and solve the most critical and complex security challenges facing enterprises today. We seek a candidate who has not just experience, but a proven record of designing, building, launching, and scaling world-class security products—from concept to global deployment. You will be a technical cornerstone of a team that lives and breathes elegant solutions and uncompromising quality. Our philosophy is rooted in relentless automated testing, rigorous code reviews, and the design of systems for massive, planetary-scale operations. As a Staff Engineer, you are a player-coach and a standard-setter, demonstrating absolute excellence in software engineering.Our environment is high-speed, fiercely innovative, and highly autonomous, utilizing agile cycles where individual ownership is paramount. If you crave stimulating, mission-critical security projects, pioneering emerging technologies, and conquering complex security and Machine Learning challenges, this is your defining career opportunity. What you’ll be doing  * Architect and Lead: Command the design, development, delivery, and supportability of cloud-native security products—leading the charge from initial concept to final, production-ready implementation. * Drive Collaboration: Build solid, cross-group partnerships and demonstrate exceptional interpersonal communication, working closely with engineering, product management, design, support, and documentation teams. * Uphold Excellence: Commit to the highest programming standards through rigorous code reviews and the creation of comprehensive unit and functional tests. * Lead Remote Teams: Excel at working with remote teams and individuals while relentlessly ensuring product quality, agility, and velocity. * Mentor and Empower: Act as a player-coach to mentor, groom, and educate junior engineers. What you’ll bring to the role * 7+ years of experience building Java-based web applications. * Deep understanding of design patterns, scalability patterns, security engineering, and object-oriented principles. * Experience thriving in fast-paced software development teams that leverage continuous integration and deployment practices. * Strong communication skills and the ability to work across functions. * A powerful security background and a proven track record of championing best practices. And extra credit if you have experience in any of the following! * Experience building anomaly detection systems or risk systems is a monumental advantage. * Expertise in cloud security, identity, and/or authentication protocols. * Hands-on experience with one or more cutting-edge UI technologies such as Angular, ReactJS, Backbone, and Vue. Additional requirements: * This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data.  As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) upon hire. (P10619_3490322) #LI-Hybrid  #BB-1 Below is the annual base salary range for candidates located in San Francisco Bay Area. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Okta offers equity (where applicable), bonus, and benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. To learn more about our Total Rewards program please visit: https://rewards.okta.com/us.    The annual base salary range for this position for candidates located in the San Francisco Bay area is between: $194,000—$267,000 USD The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.