Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Data Systems)

Location: San Francisco

Salary: $157,700—$213,800 USD

Company

Databricks is the data and AI company that unifies and democratizes data, analytics and AI.

What you will do

• Develop the de facto open source standard framework for big data (Apache Spark™).
• Provide reliable and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends (e.g., AWS S3, Azure Blob Store).
• Combine the scale and cost-efficiency of data lakes, the performance and reliability of a data warehouse, and the low latency of streaming (Delta Lake).
• Provide a higher level abstraction for expressing data pipelines and enables customers to deploy, test & upgrade pipelines and eliminate operational burdens for managing and building high quality data pipelines (Delta Pipelines).
• Build the next generation query optimizer and execution engine that's fast, tuning free, scalable, and robust.

Requirements

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
• 5+ years of production level experience in either Java, Scala or C++.
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
• Experience with distributed systems, databases, and big data systems (Apache Spark, Hadoop).

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees.
• Committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel.
• Hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards.