Sr Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

Databricks · Bengaluru, India · Executive Engineering - Pipeline · listed September 9, 2024

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The shape of it

Seniority
Staff
Experience asked
15+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
5
Length
705 words

In the posting’s own words

We are hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Databricks' Engineering team reporting to an Engineering Leader. You will be part of the Databricks engineering organization, working with teams that develop Databricks products and features for thousands of enterprises worldwide.

What it asks for · 5

  • 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
  • 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.

What the job covers

  • Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering.
  • Deliver a highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers
  • Low level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters.
  • Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects
  • Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.
  • Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
  • A strong influencer or driver in the organization’s roadmap and direction.
  • Lead a TLG or similar review committee, or initiate and sustain an org/eng-wide initiative driven by engineering needs.
  • Break down complex problems quickly into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, and de-risk (through prototyping/validation).
  • Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.

Tools and skills named

Data
  • Databricks5×
Product & design
  • Roadmap2×
  • Prototyping
Cloud & infra
  • Distributed systems2×
Operations & finance
  • Recruiting
Security & compliance
  • Security
Ways of working
  • Mentorship

Words the posting leans on

  • engineering7×
  • customers5×
  • data5×
  • lead5×
  • product4×
  • projects4×
  • software4×
  • systems4×
  • experience3×
  • impact3×
  • scale3×
  • technical3×
  • world3×
  • build2×
  • building2×
  • business2×

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