Senior Software Engineer - Ingestion
Databricks · Bengaluru, India · Engineering - Pipeline · listed March 31, 2025
The shape of it
Seniority
Senior
Experience asked
5+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
6
Length
706 words
In the posting’s own words
In addition to being an important part of Lakeflow and Data Engineering, Connect is also a key platform capability. Every surface in Databricks (Dashboards, Notebooks, SQL, AI) requires ingestion capabilities and the lead for this role will need to work closely with other products to embed Connect into these surfaces.
What it asks for · 6
- BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
- 5+ years of production level experience in one of: Python, Java, Scala, C++, or similar language.
- Experience developing large-scale distributed systems from scratch
- Experience in areas like Database replication, backup, transaction recovery at one of the major database vendors (Microsoft SQL Server , Oracle, IBM etc) is a plus to have.
- Hands-on experience in developing and operating backend systems .
- Ability to contribute effectively throughout all project phases, from initial design and development to implementation and ongoing operations, with guidance from senior team members.
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.
- Break down complex problems quickly into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, and de-risk (through prototyping/validation).
Degree language
- BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
Tools and skills named
Languages
- SQL3×
- C++
- Java
- Python
- Scala
Data
- Databricks3×
- Data warehouse
Product & design
- Prototyping
- Roadmap
Cloud & infra
- Distributed systems
Go to market
- Salesforce
Words the posting leans on
- data9×
- experience6×
- systems6×
- connect5×
- database4×
- problem4×
- production4×
- key3×
- large3×
- projects3×
- solve3×
- area2×
- building2×
- business2×
- customers2×
- deep2×
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