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Sr. Staff Software Engineer — Observability, Insights & Governance

Databricks
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Mountain View, CA; San Francisco, CA$228.6k - $314.3kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior technical leader driving strategy and execution across Query Observability, SQL Warehouse Management, and Account-Level Observability & Governance within Databricks’ observability and governance domain.

Responsibilities

  • Establish the long-term technical direction across query observability, warehouse management, and account-level governance, and own the multi-year architecture all three surfaces are built on.
  • Design and lead high-impact projects that move the needle on performance, reliability, and cost transparency for customers.
  • Build the next generation of agentic observability and governance — extensible experiences that let users and automated agents investigate, diagnose, and act on telemetry across query, warehouse, and account.
  • Partner deeply with Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog, AI, security, and platform teams to integrate end-to-end visibility and governance across the data plane and control plane.
  • Mentor senior engineers, set the technical standards across the group, and recruit top talent into observability, insights, and governance.
  • Champion reliable, high-quality software and the operational practices that let a focused team confidently support product surfaces used by tens of thousands of customers.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, observability or governance platforms, databases, or backend infrastructure.
  • A proven track record as a technical leader on teams operating in complex, multi-stakeholder environments — driving long-term architecture while still delivering incremental customer impact.
  • Deep computer science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures, systems design) applied to real-world, high-throughput problems.
  • Experience with one or more of: observability and telemetry pipelines, query engines and query analytics, distributed tracing and metrics, time-series storage, data governance, or large-scale logging systems.
  • Strong cross-functional communication skills — able to align engineering, product, and infrastructure partners across multiple teams on technical strategy and trade-offs.
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience (MS/PhD a plus).
  • Bonus: experience building agentic experiences using LLMs.

Skills

Required:Large-scale distributed systemsTechnical leadershipAlgorithms and systems design
Nice to have:Observability/telemetry pipelinesQuery engines and analyticsData governance
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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