Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

Databricks
Aarhus, Berlin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 15+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Communication","Problem-solving"]

Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain backend systems powering Databricks workspaces, leading architecture, driving performance optimizations at massive scale, and mentoring junior engineers across multi-team projects. Focused on high QPS, low latency platforms, with influence on product roadmap and operational tooling in a data/AI infrastructure context.

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Databricks
Databricks
9 months ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

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Job Summary

Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain backend systems powering Databricks workspaces, leading architecture, driving performance optimizations at massive scale, and mentoring junior engineers across multi-team projects. Focused on high QPS, low latency platforms, with influence on product roadmap and operational tooling in a data/AI infrastructure context.
Location: Aarhus, Berlin
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems powering Databricks workspaces.
  • •Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to junior engineers; contribute to team coding practices and system designs.
  • •Lead architecture design, influence product roadmap, and own new projects across multiple teams.
  • •Drive optimization and debugging of large production clusters with a focus on low latency and high throughput.
  • •Plan and lead complex technical projects, participate in project planning, and lead sprint planning.

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
  • •BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
  • •Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
  • •Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
  • •Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction.
Experience:15+ yearsData analyticsOpen sourceSaaS
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipCommunicationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Delta LakeIcebergDatabricks LakehouseOpen source

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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