Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

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.

• 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:​

• 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.

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide —

including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data +

AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the

globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog.

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we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the

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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.

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