Databricks

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Lakeflow Pipelines Datasets

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5 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$229k - $314k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and deliver a scalable, fault-tolerant platform for declarative pipelines and materialized views.
  • Translate ambiguous large-scale technical challenges into incremental execution plans suitable for exabyte-scale systems.
  • Bring research and internal R&D ideas into production systems that solve customer problems.
  • Lead performance diagnosis, low-level debugging, and optimization on large production clusters.
  • Shape product direction and own technical strategy from design through delivery.
  • Drive complex, multi-team technical initiatives with sustained coordination and technical judgment.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building, operating, and evolving large-scale distributed systems in production.
  • Deep expertise in database internals, storage systems, distributed computing, streaming systems, language/API design, or performance engineering.
  • Experience executing a multi-year technical vision through incremental milestones.
  • Strong algorithmic foundations and practical engineering judgment.
  • Experience building cross-team alignment and driving initiatives from conception through customer adoption.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent depth of experience.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive employee benefits and perks, with details varying by region.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData Engineering
Databricks

About Databricks

5,001-10,000 employees

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks 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 Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).