Staff Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (AI): Developing and supporting large-scale distributed systems for data ingestion into the Lakehouse, focusing on database replication, backup, and transaction recovery. Focus on solving real business needs at a large scale and contributing to the organization's roadmap and direction.

Company

Databricks is the data and AI company that provides a Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics, and AI.

What you will do

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering skills.
• Deliver a highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers.
• Perform low-level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters.
• Contribute to architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.
• Help prevent and investigate production issues using your deep experience.
• Mentor others, lead sprint planning, delegate work and assignments to team members, and participate in project planning.

Requirements

• 15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in areas like database replication, backup, and transaction recovery at one of the major database vendors (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM, etc.).
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
• Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and perks to 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.