Staff Software Engineer, Metrics and Logging

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At Databricks we are passionate aboutenabling data teams to 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 tackle technical challenges from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And were only getting started.

The Logging Platform team plays a critical role in building scalable and efficient logging solutions that power observability across all Databricks services. As a Staff Software Engineer you will drive the next generation of our logging infrastructure enabling engineers across the company to gain deep insights into system behavior troubleshoot issues efficiently and optimize performance at scale.

The impact youll have:

• Build the future of logging at Databricks by designing and scaling our next-generation logging platform that processes petabytes of logs daily.
• Develop and optimize log delivery pipelines to support low-latency high-throughput log ingestion and querying ensuring seamless observability across all Databricks services.
• Enhance log accessibility and usability developing tools that enable engineers to efficiently search analyze and derive insights from logs.
• Collaborate with teams across Databricks to define best practices for structured logging standardizing formats and improving the developer experience.
• Improve reliability and cost-efficiency by optimizing log retention indexing and query performance to reduce operational overhead.
• Mentor and uplevel engineers fostering a culture of technical excellence within the team and broader observability community.

What we look for:

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field.
• 7 years of production-level experience in one of: Scala Rust Go Python Java C or similar languages.
• Deep experience in software development in large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience driving complex projects involving multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Familiarity with log collection health monitoring and observability tools.

Required Experience:

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