Senior Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

Databricks
Bengaluru
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 15+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving"]

Senior Staff Software Engineer responsible for owning product or infrastructure direction in a major area, mentoring senior engineers, and leading high-impact projects. Works on large-scale distributed systems within Databricks’ engineering organization, building scalable, fault-tolerant backend engines and driving architectural design and roadmap influence across multiple teams.

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Databricks
1 year ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

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Job Summary

Senior Staff Software Engineer responsible for owning product or infrastructure direction in a major area, mentoring senior engineers, and leading high-impact projects. Works on large-scale distributed systems within Databricks’ engineering organization, building scalable, fault-tolerant backend engines and driving architectural design and roadmap influence across multiple teams.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own and drive architecture design and roadmap for a major area, taking ownership of new projects from concept to scalable delivery.
  • •Lead high-impact company projects, mentoring senior engineers and guiding cross-team collaboration.
  • •Perform low-level systems debugging and performance optimization on large production clusters.
  • •Plan and lead complicated technical projects that involve multiple teams and stakeholders.
  • •Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, leading sprint planning, and coordinating assignments.

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
  • •Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
  • •Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
  • •Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
  • •Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction.
Experience:15+ yearsDataEnterprise softwareCloud computingAI infrastructure
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solving
Languages:English

Company Brief

Databricks
Provides a unified data analytics platform powered by Apache Spark to simplify building, deploying, and scaling data engineering, data science, and machine learning workloads for enterprises.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2013
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