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Systems PhD - Software Engineer

Databricks· Databricks Engineering
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Hybrid (Mountain View, CA; San Francisco, CA)$150k - $190kfull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Databricks is hiring a Systems PhD Software Engineer to work on multi-cloud database systems, with opportunities to design and implement across query compilation & optimization, distributed execution, vectorized engines, data security, resource management, transaction coordination, storage structures, and automatic physical data optimization.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement in areas such as query compilation & optimization, distributed query execution and scheduling, vectorized engine execution, data security, resource management, transaction coordination, efficient storage structures (encoding, indexes), and automatic physical data optimization.

Qualifications

  • PhD in databases or systems
  • A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, and/or performance optimization
  • Motivated by delivering customer value and impact

Skills

Required:PhD in databases or systemsDatabase systemsPerformance optimization

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and perks (region-specific details available)
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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