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Staff Software Engineer - User Activation

Databricks
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San Francisco, CA$192k - $260kfull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Staff Engineer on the User Activation team responsible for technical vision, architecture, and execution for onboarding and horizontal product experiences to accelerate customer adoption and growth. Leads a team of ~20 engineers, shaping onboarding flows, workspace experiences, and partner integrations.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the strategy for customer onboarding, workspace experience, account management, and other horizontal product experiences.
  • Partner with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build intuitive, scalable, and extensible solutions that drive product-led growth.
  • Lead architectural decisions to ensure performance, reliability, and simplicity across core user flows.
  • Hands-on full-stack software development to create dynamic, user-centric experiences.
  • Drive best practices for engineering excellence, including design reviews, code quality, testing strategies, and performance optimizations.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with teams developing vertical product experiences (Lakehouse Platform, SQL Warehouse, AI/BI Dashboards) and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration and innovation.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of technical leadership and impact.
  • 5+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers.
  • Expertise in Front End or Full Stack development.
  • Experience designing and building scalable SaaS platforms, onboarding flows, or customer growth-focused product experiences.
  • Expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and modern web application architectures.
  • Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives.
  • Passion for the data intelligence space.

Skills

Required:Front End or Full Stack developmentDistributed systemsCloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)SaaS platform designLeadership and mentoring

Benefits

  • Benefits are described in the linked regional document and benefits page (explicit items not listed in the description).
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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