Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Data Systems

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At Databricks we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the worlds toughest problems from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the worlds best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are central to their own missions.

Founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark Databricks has grown from a tiny corner office in Berkeley California to a global organization with over 1000 employees. Thousands of organizations from small to Fortune 100 trust Databricks with their missioncritical workloads making us one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in the world.

Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real important needs in the world. We constantly push the boundaries of data and AI technology while simultaneously operating with the resilience security and scale that is critical to making customers successful on our platform.

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.

Modern data analysis employs sophisticated methods such as machine learning that go well beyond the rollup and drilldown capabilities of traditional SQL query engines. As a software engineer on the Runtime team at Databricks you will be building the next generation distributed data storage and processing systems that can outperform specialized SQL query engines in relational query performance yet provide the expressiveness and programming abstractions to support diverse workloads ranging from ETL to data science.

Below are some example projects:

Apache Spark: Develop the de facto open source standard framework for big data.

Data Plane Storage: Deliver reliable and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends e.g. AWS S3 Azure Blob Store.

Delta Lake: A storage management system that combines the scale and costefficiency of data lakes the performance and reliability of a data warehouse and the low latency of streaming. Its higher level abstractions and guarantees including ACID transactions and time travel drastically simplify the complexity of realworld data engineering architecture.

Delta Pipelines: Its difficult to manage even a single data engineering pipeline. The goal of the Delta Pipelines project is to make it simple and possible to orchestrate and operate tens of thousands of data pipelines. It provides a higher level abstraction for expressing data pipelines and enables customers to deploy test & upgrade pipelines and eliminate operational burdens for managing and building high quality data pipelines.

Performance Engineering: Build the next generation query optimizer and engine thats fast tuning free scalable and robust.

What we look for:

• BS in Computer Science related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Optional: MS or PhD in databases distributed systems.
• Comfortable working towards a multiyear vision with incremental deliverables.
• Driven by delivering customer value and impact.
• 8 years of production level experience in either Java Scala or C.
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their realworld use cases.
• Experience with distributed systems databases and big data systems (Apache Spark Hadoop).

Required Experience:

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