Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform

Databricks · Bengaluru, India · Engineering - Pipeline · listed August 19, 2024

The shape of it

Seniority
Staff
Experience asked
4–10 years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
7
Length
668 words

In the posting’s own words

As a Staff Software Engineer working on the Data Platform team, you will leverage bleeding-edge AI developer tools and techniques to help build the Data Intelligence Platform for Databricks that will allow us to automate decision-making across the entire company. You will achieve this in collaboration with Databricks Product Teams, Data Science, and many more. You will define the future of a variety of tools spanning logging, orchestration, data transformation, metric store, governance platforms, and data consumption layers, just to name a few.

What it asks for · 7

  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of industry experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • 4+ years of experience providing technical leadership on planet-scale production data systems
  • Experience leading architecture efforts for performance-sensitive systems (e.g., latency-critical services, multi-tenant platforms, large-scale indexing pipelines).
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
  • A strategic mindset with the ability to align engineering execution with longer-term product and company goals.
  • Passion for mentoring and developing other engineers.

What the job covers

  • Design and run the cross-company Data Intelligence Platform, which contains every business and product metric used to run Databricks. You’ll play a key role in developing the right balance of data protection and ease of shareability for the Data Intelligence Platform as we transition to a public company.
  • Develop tooling and infrastructure to efficiently manage and run Databricks on Databricks at scale, across multiple clouds, geographies, and deployment types. This includes CI/CD processes, test frameworks for pipelines and data quality, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
  • Partner with our engineering teams to provide leadership in developing the long-term vision and requirements for the Databricks product.
  • Build reliable data pipelines and solve data problems using Databricks, our partner’s products, and other OSS tools. Provide early feedback on the design and operations of these products.
  • Represent Databricks at academic and industrial conferences & events.

Degree language

  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

Tools and skills named

Data
  • Databricks9×
  • Data pipelines
Cloud & infra
  • CI/CD
  • Distributed systems
Ways of working
  • Cross-functional
  • Mentorship
Product & design
  • User experience

Words the posting leans on

  • data16×
  • platform7×
  • product6×
  • experience4×
  • data intelligence3×
  • developing3×
  • engineers3×
  • infrastructure3×
  • intelligence platform3×
  • pipelines3×
  • run3×
  • systems3×
  • tools3×
  • build2×
  • building2×
  • business2×

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