Staff Software Engineer, Data Collection (Tags & SDKs)

P-1607

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 solve 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.

First-party data collection is the entry point for everything downstream. It also runs on other peoples websites and inside other peoples apps which raises the bar from a quality reliability and development experience. We are looking for an engineer to lead that surface client and server side.

• Lead the collection stack end to end: browser tag mobile SDKs server-side endpoints and the ingest path behind them
• Define the schema and versioning contract including compatibility across SDK versions already in the field
• Lead identity handling that spans anonymous and authenticated records across devices and sessions
• Lead integrations with other CustomerLake products like Profile & Campaign Agents
• Hold hard budgets on page weight latency and failure behavior so that collection never degrades the host application
• Partner closely with product management design and other engineering teams to build intuitive scalable and extensible solutions that drive user & business growth

• 10 years of engineering experience including time as a tech lead or leading other tech leads on complex enterprise software projects
• Ownership of an SDK or client library consumed by external developers including native iOS and Android
• Deep browser-side JavaScript experience: bundle size async loading CSP storage and cookie restrictions tracking prevention
• High-throughput server-side collection: edge endpoints batching retries and delivery guarantees
• Practical grounding in consent and privacy requirements including regional routing and data minimization
• High ownership and bias for action in 01 environments: you are comfortable making pragmatic trade-offs operating with incomplete information and driving projects from idea through launch and adoption
• Strong ability to collaborate across product engineering and design teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives
• Combination of technical and people leadership for example as a TLM (Nice to have)
• Experience building a CDP analytics SDK or tag management product (Nice to have)
• Experience with incident response for code deployed on customer properties (Nice to have)