Software Engineer - Systems PhD Candidates
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At Databricks we are passionate about helping data teams solve the worlds toughest problems from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the worlds best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers and customer obsessed we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges from designing nextgen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And were only getting started.
Were radically simplifying the entire data lifecycle from ingestion to generative AI and everything inbetween. Were doing it crosscloud with a unified platform currently serving over 10k customers processing exabytes of data/day on 15 million VMs and growing exponentially.
To make it happen were building multicloud systems at every corner of the data ecosystem from query engines vector databases training pipelines and storage systems down to the infrastructure that allows them to scale like autosharders caches and load balancers just to name a few. We also build and support the tooling languages and stacks that bring it together. Basically we do it all.
The space we work in and the problems we solve are massive complex and very deep (our published work on Lakehouse Delta lake and Photon are a testament to that). Were looking for practitioners who are eager to work with the best in industry to push the boundaries of whats possible for our customers. If youre truth seeking data driven and love to operate from first principles (head fake: our core values then Databricks is the place for you.
As a part of the Database Engine team there are opportunities to design and implement in many areas that leapfrog existing stateoftheart systems:
- Query compilation & optimization
- Distributed query and scheduling
- Vectorized engine
- Data security
- Resource Management
- Transaction coordination
- Efficient storage structures (encoding indexes)
- Automatic physical data optimization
What we look for:
- PhD in databases or systems
- A passion for database systems storage systems distributed systems language design and/or performance optimization
- Motivated by delivering customer value and impact
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