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Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Managed Tables

Databricks· Engineering
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Mountain View, CA$228.6k - $314.3kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior leadership role on the ManagedTables team at Databricks, focused on DataIntelligence initiatives underpinning Unity Catalog ManagedTables, including Predictive Optimization, Liquid Clustering, and control plane services for Unity Catalog and Iceberg Rest Catalog API-based access. Responsible for designing and implementing next-gen autonomous analytical datasystems with enterprise-grade performance and interoperability, driving architecture, and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Solve real business needs at large scale by applying software engineering experience and collaborating with Product partners
  • Deliver a highly scalable, available, and inter-operable architecture for Managed Tables
  • 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
  • Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services
  • Use deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues
  • Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company
  • Mentor and up-level engineers on the team

Qualifications

  • 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems
  • A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, or performance optimization
  • Experience 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 systemsStorage systemsAlgorithms and data structures

Benefits

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

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