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Senior Software Engineer - Ingestion

Databricks· Engineering
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Hybrid (Bengaluru)Full-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer focusing on Lakeflow Connect ingestion capabilities, building and operating large-scale data ingestion systems to extract data from OLTP sources with minimal production impact, and integrating ingestion across Databricks surfaces.

Responsibilities

  • Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering.
  • Deliver a highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers
  • Low level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters.
  • Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects
  • 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.
  • Break down complex problems quickly into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, and de-risk (through prototyping/validation).

Qualifications

  • BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
  • 5+ years of production level experience in Python, Java, Scala, C++, or similar language
  • Experience developing large-scale distributed systems from scratch
  • Experience in areas like Database replication, backup, transaction recovery at one of the major database vendors (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM etc) is a plus to have
  • Hands-on experience in developing and operating backend systems
  • Ability to contribute effectively throughout all project phases, from initial design and development to implementation and ongoing operations, with guidance from senior team members

Skills

Required:PythonJava
Nice to have:ScalaC++

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and perks (region-specific details available via provided link)
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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