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Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform

Databricks· Engineering
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Bengalurufull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer working on the Data Platform to build the Data Intelligence Platform, tooling, and data pipelines at Databricks, collaborating with product, data science, and engineering teams to enable automated decision-making across the company and scale across clouds and geographies.

Responsibilities

  • Design and run the cross-company Data Intelligence Platform, containing every business and product metric used to run Databricks, with attention to data protection and shareability as the company transitions to a public company.
  • Develop tooling and infrastructure to efficiently manage and run Databricks on Databricks at scale, across multiple clouds, geographies, and deployment types, including CI/CD processes, test frameworks for pipelines and data quality, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
  • Partner with engineering teams to provide leadership in developing the long-term vision and requirements for the Databricks product.
  • Build reliable data pipelines and solve data problems using Databricks, partner products, and OSS tools; provide early feedback on design and operations of these products.
  • Represent Databricks at academic and industrial conferences & events.

Qualifications

  • 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 (latency-critical services, multi-tenant platforms, large-scale indexing pipelines).
  • Strong communication skills and ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
  • Strategic mindset to align engineering execution with longer-term product and company goals.
  • Passion for mentoring and developing other engineers.

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsData pipelinesLeadership / ArchitectureCommunication

Benefits

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

About Databricks

Leading Data and AI Platform for Enterprises

Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data Intelligence Platform.

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