Staff Software Engineer (Lakeflow)

Location: Mountain View, California or San Francisco, California, United States

Salary: $192,000–$260,000 USD per year, with potential annual bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

Databricks is a Data and AI company providing a unified Lakehouse platform for data engineering, analytics, and AI applications.

What you will do

• Design and implement distributed systems for cross-region replication and recovery of Lakeflow pipelines.
• Build recovery capabilities for streaming tables, materialized views, checkpoints, source offsets, state, table versions, schedules, and dataflow dependencies.
• Develop failover and failback workflows with conservative correctness guardrails.
• Improve metadata reconciliation, observability, deep cloning, and failure-injection testing.
• Run high-fidelity recovery simulations and game-day tests while reasoning formally about failure modes.

Requirements

• Strong passion for distributed systems, databases, storage systems, streaming systems, or reliability engineering.
• Strong software engineering skills in Java, Scala, C++, Go, Python, or a similar production language.
• Understanding of consistency, transactions, idempotency, replication, checkpointing, and data lineage.
• Ability to define a multi-year technical vision and deliver incremental, production-quality solutions.
• 8+ years of experience working on related systems preferred.

Nice to have

• PhD or advanced research experience in databases, distributed systems, or storage.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to build resilient Lakehouse computing foundations for business-critical data pipelines.
• Comprehensive employee benefits and perks, varying by region.
• Inclusive workplace with equal employment opportunity practices.