Staff Backend Software Engineer

Databricks
New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 190,000 - 261,250 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Scala","Go","Python","Distributed systems","APIs","Service-oriented architecture","Observability","Deployment pipelines","Backend"]

Join a high-visibility AI Engineering team at Databricks to build and scale backend infrastructure powering data apps, AI agents, model training and serving. You’ll work on distributed AI workloads, LLM infrastructure, and end-to-end developer experiences, collaborating with platform, infra, and ML teams to enable scalable, reliable AI capabilities for customers.

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Databricks
Databricks
4 months ago

Staff Backend Software Engineer

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Job Summary

Join a high-visibility AI Engineering team at Databricks to build and scale backend infrastructure powering data apps, AI agents, model training and serving. You’ll work on distributed AI workloads, LLM infrastructure, and end-to-end developer experiences, collaborating with platform, infra, and ML teams to enable scalable, reliable AI capabilities for customers.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build LLM infrastructure powering trillions of tokens per week for customers through partner models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) and self hosted models (Qwen, GPT-OSS, Llama)
  • •Improve reliability, latency, and efficiency of distributed AI workloads
  • •Collaborate with platform, infra, and ML teams to deliver seamless end-to-end experiences
  • •Shape how developers and data scientists build and interact with AI on Databricks
  • •Lead design and implementation of scalable backend services and APIs for AI workloads

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 190,000 - 261,250 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering
  • •Strong programming skills in Scala, Go, or Python
  • •Experience with distributed systems, scalable APIs, or cloud-native infrastructure
  • •Familiarity with service-oriented architecture, deployment pipelines, and system observability
  • •Strong product and ownership mindset — you care about building the right solution, not just any solution
Experience:8+ yearsDistributed systemsCloud-native infrastructureBackend engineering
Skills:ScalaGoPythonDistributed systemsAPIsService-oriented architectureObservabilityDeployment pipelinesBackend
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ScalaGoPythonDistributed systemsCloud

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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