Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · London, United Kingdom · Engineering

Databricks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Backend team in London. This role involves working on the core Lakehouse Platform, focusing on distributed systems, large-scale service architecture, workflow orchestration, and developer experience. The engineer will build reliable, secure, and high-performance services for data storage and access, solve reliability issues, and improve system uptime. The position requires significant production experience in backend development, particularly with large-scale distributed systems and SaaS platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Problems that span from product to infrastructure including: distributed systems, at-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration, and developer experience.
  2. 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.
  3. Develop product features that empower our customers to easily store and access their data.
  4. Solve reliability problems related to Lakebase.
  5. Actively find causes of downtime and systematically improve or remove root causes.

Skills

Required

  • 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.