Staff Software Engineer Backend

P-1514

At Databricks we are passionate about enabling 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.

Founded by engineers Databricks has started a multi-year journey to build the best Lakehouse Platform. For this we are building on top of a great foundation but our goal is to go further to build dramatically better products. We want to revisit every component to provide our customers with the fastest easiest to use and most secure data platform for all their data workloads.

As a software engineer you will join as a founding member of not only the London site but really as a founding team for our multi-year journey to achieve our Lakehouse vision. You will be involved in the entire development cycle and exemplify all core Databricks values.

The impact you will have:

Our backend teams span many domains across our essential service platforms. For instance you might work on challenges such as:

• Problems that span from product to infrastructure including: distributed systems at-scale service architecture and monitoring workflow orchestration and developer experience.
• Build reliable secure and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends e.g. AWS S3 GCS Azure Blob Store.
• Develop product features that empower our customers to easily store and access their data.
• Solve reliability problems related to Lakebase.
• Actively find causes of downtime and systematically improve or remove root causes.
• Help the org define SLIs meet SLOs and drive long-term reliability improvements.

What we look for:

• BS degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field.
• 8 years of production level experience in one of: Java Scala C or similar language.
• Experience developing large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures.
• Knowledge of SQL.

Required Experience:

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