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Staff Backend Software Engineer

Databricks· Engineering
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New York, NY$190k - $261.3kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Backend/infra-focused role on the Unity AI Gateway team at Databricks. Build and optimize the control plane for AI requests, routing to models, enforcing budgets, and applying guardrails to enable scalable AI workloads across partner and self-hosted models, agents, coding assistants, and MCP servers.

Responsibilities

  • Build the routing layer that picks the right model for each request across quality, cost, latency, availability, and remaining budget
  • Improve reliability, latency, and efficiency of distributed AI workloads
  • Collaborate with research, platform, infra, and AI/ML teams to deliver seamless end-to-end experiences
  • Shape how developers and data scientists build and interact with AI on Databricks

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering
  • Strong programming skills in Scala, or Go
  • Experience with distributed systems, high-throughput 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:ScalaGoDistributed systemsService-oriented architectureOwnership mindset

Benefits

  • benefits listed in the job description are referenced but not enumerated here; please refer to the link provided in the posting for details
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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