Staff Database Engineer

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · CA · Engineering - Pipeline

Databricks is seeking a Staff Database Engineer to build the Lakebase product, focusing on optimizing the database developer experience and integration with the lakehouse. The role involves designing operational tools, enterprise extensions for security and observability, assisting with POCs, and advising customers on best practices for application and database design to maximize performance. Requires 5+ years of experience with Postgres and other database systems, and experience building/operating high-volume OLTP systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. designing operational tools to simplify troubleshooting and enterprise extensions for Lakebase to meet customer security and observability requirements
  2. assist field engineers with complex and demanding POC’s and advise customers and field engineers on best practices for application and database design to maximize performance
  3. advising software engineering teams on functional and non-functional feature designs
  4. working with product teams to validate that designs satisfy customer requirements
  5. build the Lakebase product

Skills

Required

  • Postgres
  • database systems
  • application performance tuning
  • high-volume OLTP systems
  • root cause analysis for incidents
  • tools to automate database management, monitoring, and operations
  • query tuning in Postgres (schema design, indexes, hints, vacuum, etc)
  • 5+ years of experience