Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Amsterdam, Netherlands · Engineering - Pipeline

Databricks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Backend to build infrastructure and products for their data and AI platform. The role involves working on distributed systems, at-scale service architecture, workflow orchestration, and developer experience, with a focus on delivering reliable and high-performance services for data storage and access. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in backend development, large-scale distributed systems, and SaaS platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. work with your team to build infrastructure and products for the Databricks platform at scale.
  2. Problems that span from product to infrastructure including: distributed systems, at-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration, and developer experience.
  3. Deliver reliable and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends, e.g., AWS S3, Azure Blob Store.
  4. Build reliable, scalable services, e.g. Scala, Kubernetes, and data pipelines, e.g. Spark, Databricks, to power the pricing infrastructure that serves millions of cluster-hours per day and develop product features that empower customers to easily view and control platform usage.

Skills

Required

  • BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
  • 7+ 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.
  • Good knowledge of SQL.