Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

Databricks
London, Berlin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 15+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Communication","Problem-solving","Team collaboration"]

Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems powering Databricks workspaces. Lead technical initiatives in the Delta DML team, optimize large-scale production clusters, mentor junior engineers, influence architecture and product roadmaps, and drive automation and operational improvements across multi-team initiatives.

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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

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Job Summary

Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems powering Databricks workspaces. Lead technical initiatives in the Delta DML team, optimize large-scale production clusters, mentor junior engineers, influence architecture and product roadmaps, and drive automation and operational improvements across multi-team initiatives.
Location: London, Berlin
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Solve real business needs at large scale by applying software engineering principles.
  • •Perform low level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters.
  • •Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership of new projects.
  • •Introduce tools to increase automation and operability of services.
  • •Plan and lead complicated technical projects that involve multiple teams and mentor others in sprint planning and project execution.

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.
  • •Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
  • •Experience leading technical projects and mentoring other engineers.
  • •Comfortable with a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
Experience:15+ yearsDistributed systems
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipMentoringCommunicationProblem-solvingTeam collaboration
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Apache SparkDelta LakeIcebergMLflow

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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