Databricks

Staff Backend Software Engineer- (AI Platform)

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5 months ago

Base Salary

$166k - $225k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build infrastructure powering MLflow, AI Gateway, Databricks Apps, Agent Framework, Agent Bricks, Foundation Model APIs, and related AI offerings.
  • Improve the reliability, latency, and efficiency of distributed AI workloads.
  • Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and machine learning teams to deliver end-to-end experiences.
  • Shape how developers and data scientists build and interact with AI on Databricks.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering.
  • Strong programming skills in Scala, Go, or Python.
  • Experience with distributed systems, scalable APIs, or cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with service-oriented architecture, deployment pipelines, and system observability.
  • Experience with real-time serving, ML infrastructure, GPU orchestration, SageMaker, Vertex AI, or Azure ML is a bonus.
  • Contributions to open-source projects such as MLflow, PyTorch, or Ray and experience building developer platforms or internal AI workflow tools are bonuses.

Benefits

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

Tech Stack

Apache SparkDatabricksGoMLflowPythonPyTorchScala
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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).