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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

Databricks· Engineering
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Aarhusfull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems powering Databricks workspaces, with a focus on the Delta DML backend for Delta Lake. Leadership, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration to deliver high-QPS, low-latency, scalable services at massive scale.

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:Distributed systemsBackend architectureleadership / mentoring

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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