Staff Software Engineer - Databases

Databricks
Bengaluru
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["MySQL","TiDB","CI/CD","Migration tooling","Observability","Backfill"]

Lead design, development, and reliability of a global schema/data platform. Architect and maintain automated schema change infrastructure for MySQL and TiDB, build scalable, zero-downtime deployments, and enhance developer tooling and CI/CD integration for safe, efficient migrations that scale across thousands of databases.

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Databricks
Databricks
2 years ago

Staff Software Engineer - Databases

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Job Summary

Lead design, development, and reliability of a global schema/data platform. Architect and maintain automated schema change infrastructure for MySQL and TiDB, build scalable, zero-downtime deployments, and enhance developer tooling and CI/CD integration for safe, efficient migrations that scale across thousands of databases.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect and maintain automated schema change infrastructure for MySQL and TiDB, with versioning, rollback, validation, and auditing.
  • •Ensure the platform operates across thousands of global databases with zero downtime, improving resilience and recoverability.
  • •Design intuitive tools and APIs for schema and data change management and embed migration workflows into CI/CD pipelines.
  • •Design infrastructure for safe, large-scale schema and data operations like backfills and purging, with monitoring, retryability, and automation.
  • •Drive scalable and reliable schema/data operations across Databricks’ global footprint and elevate developer experience.

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years of professional experience in backend systems or platform engineering.
  • •Experience in building platforms, infrastructure, or database engineering, especially with MySQL, TiDB.
  • •Track record of building and scaling mission-critical platforms supporting high-throughput, global services.
  • •Experience with schema migration frameworks, CI/CD automation and developer tooling.
  • •Champion of developer experience, creating clear, reliable, and user-friendly workflows.
Experience:12+ yearsBackendPlatform engineeringDatabases
Skills:MySQLTiDBCI/CDMigration toolingObservabilityBackfill
Languages:English
Tech Stack:MySQLTiDBCI/CDSchema migrationObservability

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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