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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

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Londonfull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior Staff Software Engineer role in the Delta DML team, building and maintaining robust backend systems powering Databricks workspaces at large scale. Focus on high QPS, low latency, reliability, and performance, with technical leadership and mentorship responsibilities.

Responsibilities

  • Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering.
  • Low level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters.
  • Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.
  • Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Backend systems design and developmentPerformance optimization

Benefits

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Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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