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Sr. Software Engineer- Backend

Databricks
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New York City, NY$165.3k - $219.7kfull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Senior backend engineer role in Databricks AI Platform team focused on building infrastructure powering data apps, AI agents, model training, model serving, and vector search within Databricks Mosaic AI.

Responsibilities

  • Build infrastructure that powers our flagship offerings like MLflow, AI Gateway, Databricks Apps, Agent Framework, Agent Bricks, and Foundation Model APIs, to state a few.
  • Improve reliability, latency, and efficiency of distributed AI workloads
  • Collaborate with platform, infra, and ML teams to deliver seamless end-to-end experiences
  • Shape how developers and data scientists build and interact with AI on Databricks

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering
  • Strong programming skills in Scala, Go, or Python
  • Experience with distributed systems, scalable APIs, or cloud-native infrastructure
  • Familiarity with service-oriented architecture, deployment pipelines, and system observability
  • Strong product and ownership mindset — you care about building the right solution, not just any solution

Skills

Required:ScalaGoPythonDistributed systemsAPIs / cloud-native infrastructure
Nice to have:Service-oriented architecture
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Databricks

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Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data Intelligence Platform.

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