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Staff Software Engineer - Ingestion

Databricks· Engineering
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Bengalurufull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Databricks is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Lakeflow Connect team in Bengaluru, focusing on ingesting data into the Lakehouse. The role emphasizes building and embedding Connect across surfaces (Dashboards, Notebooks, SQL, AI), working on core database internals, and delivering a scalable, fault-tolerant ingestion engine for hundreds of TB per day across thousands of customers.

Responsibilities

  • Solve real business needs at large scale by applying 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.
  • A strong influencer or driver in the organization’s roadmap and direction.
  • Lead a TLG or similar review committee, or initiate and sustain an org/eng-wide initiative driven by engineering needs.
  • Break down complex problems quickly into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, and de-risk (through prototyping/validation).
  • Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience in Database replication, backup, transaction recovery at major database vendors (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM, etc).
  • Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
  • Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
  • Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
  • Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction.

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsDatabase internalsLeadership / technical leadership

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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