Sr Staff Software Engineer (Backend)
Databricksover 1 year ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own product or infrastructure direction for a major area from initial development through scalable solutions.
- Build highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant engines processing hundreds of terabytes of data daily across thousands of customers.
- Perform low-level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters.
- Design architectures, influence product roadmaps, and take ownership of new projects.
- Prevent and investigate production issues using deep technical expertise.
- Plan and lead complex technical projects involving multiple internal teams.
- Drive organizational roadmap and engineering direction through technical influence.
- Lead technical review committees or sustain engineering-wide initiatives.
- Break down complex problems and de-risk solutions through prototyping and validation.
- Mentor engineers, lead sprint planning, delegate assignments, and participate in project planning.
- Contribute to recruiting and lead high-impact company projects.
Requirements
- 15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
- Experience driving company initiatives toward customer satisfaction.
- Ability to work toward a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
- Motivation to deliver customer value and measurable impact.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks, with region-specific details available through Databricks' benefits portal.
Tech Stack
About Databricks
Databricks builds a cloud-based data and AI platform centered on the lakehouse architecture, combining data engineering, analytics, and machine learning with Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. It sells subscriptions and cloud services to enterprises that need to unify data pipelines and develop large-scale AI and analytics. Founded in 2013 by the creators of Apache Spark and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and serves organizations across many industries.