Senior Software Engineer (backend) - Ai/ml Environments

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · Engineering - Pipeline

Backend Senior Software Engineer for Databricks' AI/ML Environments team, focusing on building the infrastructure for AI training and serving environments. The role involves collaborating with other AI infrastructure teams, interacting with customers and product managers, and shaping how developers interact with AI on Databricks.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build the infrastructure that enables ML and AI users to configure training and serving environments easily, reliably and reproducibly.
  2. Collaborate with other AI infrastructure teams to build the features that customers need to get more from the Databricks platform.
  3. Interact with turnkey customers and product managers to envision new features and identify areas for improvement.
  4. Shape how developers and data scientists build and interact with AI on Databricks.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering with a focus on building systems
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Scala or Java
  • Experience with distributed systems, scalable APIs, or cloud-native infrastructure
  • Familiarity with service-oriented architecture, deployment pipelines, and system observability
  • Strong understanding of dependency management technologies including virtual environments or containerization technologies.

Nice to have

  • Strong product and ownership mindset — you care about building the right solution, not just any solution

What the JD emphasized

  • build the system that enables the AI researchers and engineers to set up their desired training and serving environments
  • frontier of AI infrastructure
  • building the infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI

Other signals

  • enables AI researchers and engineers to set up their desired training and serving environments
  • frontier of AI infrastructure
  • building the infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI