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Staff Software Engineer - Databases

Databricks· Engineering
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Bengalurufull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing, developing, and ensuring reliability of Databricks’ global schema and data change platform, including schema migration, scale and reliability, developer experience, and large-scale data operations.

Responsibilities

  • Architecting and maintaining automated schema change infrastructure for MySQL and TiDB with versioning, rollback, validation, and auditing.
  • Ensuring platform operates across thousands of databases with zero downtime; improving resilience, observability, recovery, and building a test harness for migration and deployment validation.
  • Designing intuitive tools and APIs for schema and data change management; embedding migration workflows into CI/CD pipelines to increase velocity.
  • Designing infrastructure for safe, large-scale schema and data operations like backfills and purging; ensuring backfill operations are monitored, retryable, minimally disruptive, and automated.
  • Ensuring scalability and reliability of schema and data operations across Databricks’ global footprint.
  • Driving predictable deployments by building robust test harnesses and automation.
  • Elevating developer experience by building accessible, resilient migration tools.
  • Guaranteeing integrity of schema and data through safe, efficient backfill strategies.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of professional experience in backend systems or platform engineering.
  • Experience in building platforms, infrastructure, or database engineering, especially with MySQL and TiDB.
  • Track record of building and scaling mission-critical platforms supporting high-throughput, global services.
  • Experience with schema migration frameworks, CI/CD automation and developer tooling.
  • Champion of developer experience, creating clear, reliable, and user-friendly workflows.

Skills

Required:Backend systems designMySQLTiDBSchema migrationCI/CD toolingDeveloper experience

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package (regional specifics available via company link)
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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