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Staff Software Engineer, Data Collection (Tags & SDKs)

Databricks· Engineering
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New York City, NY$190.9k - $253.8kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead the data collection surface for Databricks' customer data collection stack across browser tags, mobile SDKs, and server-side endpoints; define schema/versioning, lead privacy-conscious data handling, and collaborate with product/design/engineering to drive scalable, low-latency collection solutions that improve user and business growth.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the collection stack end to end: browser tag, mobile SDKs, server-side endpoints, and the ingest path behind them
  • Define the schema and versioning contract, including compatibility across SDK versions already in the field
  • Lead identity handling that spans anonymous and authenticated records, across devices and sessions
  • Lead integrations with other CustomerLake products like Profile & Campaign Agents
  • Hold hard budgets on page weight, latency, and failure behavior, so that collection never degrades the host application
  • Partner closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build intuitive, scalable, and extensible solutions that drive user & business growth

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of engineering experience, including time as a tech lead, or leading other tech leads, on complex enterprise software projects
  • Ownership of an SDK or client library consumed by external developers, including native iOS and Android
  • Deep browser-side JavaScript experience: bundle size, async loading, CSP, storage and cookie restrictions, tracking prevention
  • High-throughput server-side collection: edge endpoints, batching, retries, and delivery guarantees
  • Practical grounding in consent and privacy requirements, including regional routing and data minimization
  • High ownership and bias for action in 0→1 environments: you are comfortable making pragmatic trade-offs, operating with incomplete information, and driving projects from idea through launch and adoption
  • Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and design teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives
  • Combination of technical and people leadership, for example, as a TLM (Nice to have)
  • Experience building a CDP, analytics SDK, or tag management product (Nice to have)
  • Experience with incident response for code deployed on customer properties (Nice to have)

Skills

Required:Engineering leadershipSDK / client library ownershipJavaScript / browser engineeringServer-side collection & reliability

Benefits

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

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