Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

About the role

The Delta DML team is seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems for the Delta Lake storage layer. You will lead technical initiatives, mentor junior engineers, and ensure high performance and reliability for large-scale data infrastructure. This role involves driving performance innovations and contributing to open-source efforts while addressing complex growth challenges.

Responsibilities

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering.
• Low level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters.
• Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.
• Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services.
• Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.
• Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
• Contribute as a technical team lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.

Required skills

• Distributed systems
• Algorithms
• Data structures
• Backend development
• Systems debugging

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors
• Equivalent experience

About the Company

Databricks is the Data and AI company, providing a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.