Senior Staff Software Engineer Backend
Senior Staff Software Engineer Backend
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We are hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Databricks Engineering team reporting to an Engineering Leader. You will be part of the Databricks engineering organization working with teams that develop Databricks products and features for thousands of enterprises worldwide.
Key Characteristics
As an executive engineering individual contributor at Databricks you will have full ownership of the product or infrastructure direction in a major area driving it from initial development to scalable solutions with clear business impact. You will serve as a force multiplier by elevating stability reliability and organizational processes while bringing deep expertise in largescale distributed systems. You will mentor senior engineers contribute to recruiting and lead highimpact company projects often tackling complex problems beyond their comfort zone.
Job Description
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.
Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real important needs in the world. 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.
The Impact you will have:
- Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering.
- Deliver a highly scalable available and faulttolerant engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers
- Low level systems debugging performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters.
- Build architecture design influence product roadmap and take ownership and responsibility over new projects
- Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.
- Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
- A strong influencer or driver in the organizations roadmap and direction.
- Lead a TLG or similar review committee or initiate and sustain an org/engwide initiative driven by engineering needs.
- Break down complex problems quickly into potential solutions knowns and unknowns and derisk (through prototyping/validation).
- Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others lead sprint planning delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.
What we look for:
- 15 years industry experience building and supporting largescale distributed systems.
- Comfortable working towards a multiyear vision with incremental deliverables.
- Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
- Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their realworld use cases.
- Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
