Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

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

Lead and design robust backend systems powering Databricks workspaces, with a focus on high QPS, low latency, and scalable architecture for Delta Lake and workspace assets. Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, drive cross-team projects, and contribute to open-source efforts around Delta/Iceberg formats while shaping the product roadmap.

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9 months ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

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Job Summary

Lead and design robust backend systems powering Databricks workspaces, with a focus on high QPS, low latency, and scalable architecture for Delta Lake and workspace assets. Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, drive cross-team projects, and contribute to open-source efforts around Delta/Iceberg formats while shaping the product roadmap.
Location: Amsterdam, 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 at scale.
  • •Mentor junior engineers and contribute to improving team coding practices and system designs.
  • •Lead and plan complicated technical projects across multiple teams, including sprint planning and delegating work.
  • •Drive architecture design and influence the product roadmap to achieve high performance and operability.
  • •Identify and implement tooling to automate and improve service operability and production issue investigation.

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 initiatives and mentoring other engineers, with ability to plan and drive complex projects.
  • •Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
Experience:15+ yearsDistributed systemsData platforms
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipMentoringCommunicationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Delta LakeIcebergOpen 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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