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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Databricks· Engineering
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Bengalurufull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Senior Staff Software Engineer for Databricks' Engineering team, focusing on large-scale distributed systems, ownership of product or infrastructure direction, mentoring, and driving high-impact initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your 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.
  • 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 systemsAlgorithms and data structuresProject leadership

Benefits

  • Benefits information accessible via regional link in job description.
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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