Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Bangalore, India · Engineering - Pipeline

Staff Software Engineer on the Data Platform team at Databricks, leveraging AI developer tools to build the Data Intelligence Platform for automating company-wide decision-making. Responsibilities include designing and running the platform, developing tooling for scale, partnering with engineering teams, building data pipelines, and representing Databricks at conferences.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and run the cross-company Data Intelligence Platform, which contains every business and product metric used to run Databricks. You’ll play a key role in developing the right balance of data protection and ease of shareability for the Data Intelligence Platform as we transition to a public company.
  2. Develop tooling and infrastructure to efficiently manage and run Databricks on Databricks at scale, across multiple clouds, geographies, and deployment types. This includes CI/CD processes, test frameworks for pipelines and data quality, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
  3. Partner with our engineering teams to provide leadership in developing the long-term vision and requirements for the Databricks product.
  4. Build reliable data pipelines and solve data problems using Databricks, our partner’s products, and other OSS tools. Provide early feedback on the design and operations of these products.
  5. Represent Databricks at academic and industrial conferences & events.

Skills

Required

  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of industry experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • 4+ years of experience providing technical leadership on planet-scale production data systems
  • Experience leading architecture efforts for performance-sensitive systems (e.g., latency-critical services, multi-tenant platforms, large-scale indexing pipelines).
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
  • A strategic mindset with the ability to align engineering execution with longer-term product and company goals.
  • Passion for mentoring and developing other engineers.

What the JD emphasized

  • planet-scale production data systems
  • performance-sensitive systems