Sr. Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Sr. Software Engineer (AI): Evaluating the performance of products and features to identify bottlenecks. You'll partner with engineers to resolve scalability issues with an accent on identifying performance limitations and setting performance expectations. Focus on telemetry, customer signals, and competitive benchmarks.

Salary: $166,000—$225,000 USD

Company

Databricks is the data and AI company that more than 10,000 organizations rely on to unify and democratize data, analytics, and AI.

What you will do

• Identify performance limitations of the entire stack based on telemetry, customer signals, PoCs, and competitive benchmarks.
• Set the performance expectations for all cross-cutting efforts early on through specialized benchmarks.
• Understand the performance characteristics of the compute instance types, storage layers, and all cloud services Databricks depends on and deploy optimal solutions to meet the customer demand.
• Work with customers to root cause and mitigate performance problems during production, previews, and POCs.

Requirements

• BS (or higher degree) in Computer Science, or a related field
• Experience in the performance analysis discipline.
• Experience in software development, preferably in large scale distributed systems
• Ability to measure and document the impact of performance features to existing customers.
• Ability to build strong working relationships with developers and field engineers to facilitate triaging and mitigation of performance problems.

Culture & Benefits

• Committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel.
• Hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards.
• Employees are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.