Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Applications (AI)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States

Salary: $198,200–$272,600 USD annually, plus potential annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

Databricks is a Data and AI company whose platform is used by more than 20,000 organizations to build and scale data, AI, analytics, and agent applications.

What you will do

• Own the architecture and delivery of agentic workflows that enable marketing self-service content creation and publishing across blogs, landing pages, microsites, and social channels.
• Partner with Web Platform and Web Products engineers on CMS architecture, structured content, AI-driven discovery, and surface quality across databricks.com.
• Build agent reliability systems, including workflow-specific quality criteria, evaluation suites, behavioral regression tests, and feedback loops based on marketer approvals, edits, and rejections.
• Architect human-in-the-loop publishing with proposal and commit separation, diff-based review, approval routing, notifications, and audit logging.
• Encode brand, legal, and compliance requirements as enforceable agent guardrails.
• Mentor and grow a Senior Engineer while setting production-grade agentic engineering standards.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with a clear record of technical ownership for production systems.
• Hands-on experience building and operating LLM-powered systems in production.
• Strong ability to design quality and evaluation frameworks for probabilistic or generative outputs.
• Strong understanding of human-in-the-loop systems, including approval workflows, review interfaces, audit logging, and guardrails.
• Deep understanding of agents interacting with content systems, publishing pipelines, and web infrastructure, including CMS, deployment pipelines, and edge delivery.
• Ability to work directly with non-engineering stakeholders and translate workflow requirements into agent architecture.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical execution standards across a team.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive employee benefits and perks, with region-specific details.
• Potential eligibility for annual performance bonuses and equity.
• Commitment to inclusive hiring and a diverse workplace.
• Export-controlled technology or source-code access may require a U.S. government license; the employer may decline to proceed if access cannot be authorized.