Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta
Databricks11 months ago
Zürich, SwitzerlandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems for Databricks workspaces.
- Build a next-generation platform for serving workspace assets with high QPS, low latency, reliability, and performance.
- Perform low-level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters.
- Design architectures, influence the product roadmap, and own new projects.
- Introduce tools that improve service automation and operability.
- Prevent and investigate production issues.
- Plan and lead complex technical projects involving multiple teams.
- Mentor engineers, lead sprint planning, delegate assignments, and contribute to project planning and improved coding and system design practices.
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.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related major, or equivalent experience.
- Motivation to deliver customer value and impact.
Tech Stack
Apache SparkMLflow
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.