Sr Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

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

Senior Staff Software Engineer at Databricks leads large-scale distributed system initiatives, owning product or infrastructure direction, mentoring senior engineers, and driving cross-team, high-impact projects. You’ll build scalable, fault-tolerant backend engines processing massive data daily, influence roadmaps, and help prevent production issues while guiding technical strategy across the engineering organization.

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Databricks
Databricks
1 year ago

Sr Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

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Job Summary

Senior Staff Software Engineer at Databricks leads large-scale distributed system initiatives, owning product or infrastructure direction, mentoring senior engineers, and driving cross-team, high-impact projects. You’ll build scalable, fault-tolerant backend engines processing massive data daily, influence roadmaps, and help prevent production issues while guiding technical strategy across the engineering organization.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the architecture direction for a major area and drive it from initial development to scalable solutions with clear business impact.
  • •Lead high-impact company projects and mentor senior engineers, contributing to recruiting and team development.
  • •Build and optimize a highly scalable, fault-tolerant backend engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers.
  • •Plan and lead complicated technical projects that involve multiple teams across the company, coordinating efforts and delivering results.
  • •Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, leading sprint planning, and participating in project planning.

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
  • •Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
  • •Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction and delivering customer value.
  • •Ability to plan and lead complicated technical projects that involve multiple teams.
  • •Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to recruiting efforts.
Experience:15+ yearsDistributed systemsData infrastructureCloud
Skills:LeadershipMentoringProblem-solvingCommunication
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Distributed systemsBackendScalingArchitectureCloud infrastructure

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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