Staff Software Engineer, AI-Native Web Platform

Location: Mountain View, California, United States

Salary: $198,200–$272,600 USD annually for Zone 1, plus potential annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

Databricks is a data and AI company providing a unified platform for data, analytics, AI applications, and agents.

What you will do

• Define the technical roadmap for the AI-native web platform, including component systems, rendering architecture, CMS, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling.
• Own and author the platform’s north star architecture from the ground up.
• Apply agentic capabilities across code generation, testing, code review, deployment, and production monitoring.
• Define evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and feedback loops for reliable production-grade agentic workflows.
• Influence architectural decisions across web and marketing engineering and drive alignment with technical and business stakeholders.
• Mentor engineers and establish standards for AI-native engineering execution.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with a strong record of technical leadership and impact.
• 3+ years of engineering leadership experience as the technical owner of team-owned software systems.
• Technical leadership experience owning a web platform across design systems, rendering frameworks, edge delivery, CI/CD, and infrastructure.
• Deep hands-on expertise with React, TypeScript, Node, and the full web stack.
• Experience making and executing multi-layer architectural decisions on live production platforms.
• Experience sequencing frontend framework migrations without disrupting production and driving platform-level standards at scale.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with agentic systems or LLM-powered tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and perks, with details varying by region.
• Inclusive hiring practices and a diverse workplace.
• Potential annual performance bonus and equity eligibility.
• Databricks operates globally with more than 30 offices.