Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

Databricks
Switzerland, Berlin
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 15+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Problem-solving","Communication"]

Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain robust backend systems powering Databricks workspaces. You’ll lead architecture design, mentor junior engineers, drive high-scale performance, and coordinate cross-team technical projects, delivering low-latency, high-QPS platforms and contributing to open-source efforts around Delta Lake and Iceberg formats.

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9 months ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

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Job Summary

Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain robust backend systems powering Databricks workspaces. You’ll lead architecture design, mentor junior engineers, drive high-scale performance, and coordinate cross-team technical projects, delivering low-latency, high-QPS platforms and contributing to open-source efforts around Delta Lake and Iceberg formats.
Location: Switzerland, Berlin
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems powering Databricks workspaces with high QPS and low latency.
  • •Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership of new projects.
  • •Mentor junior engineers, lead sprint planning, and delegate work across team members.
  • •Plan and lead complicated technical projects that involve several teams across the company.
  • •Contribute as a technical team lead by improving coding practices and system designs.

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
  • •BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
Experience:15+ yearsDistributed systemsCloudBig dataAI infrastructure
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipMentoringProblem-solvingCommunication
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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