Staff Software Engineer - Backend
Databricks · Vancouver, Canada · Engineering - Pipeline · listed July 25, 2025
The shape of it
Seniority
Staff
Experience asked
10+ years
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$173,400 – $238,350 CAD
Requirements listed
10
Length
852 words
In the posting’s own words
P-1441 Databricks is on a mission to simplify and democratize data and AI — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.
What it asks for · 10
- BS (or higher) in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
- Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
- 10+ years of production level experience in either Java, Scala or C++.
- Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
- Experience developing large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures.
- Experience with cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes.
- Experience with security and systems that handle sensitive data.
- Good knowledge of SQL.
Degree language
- BS (or higher) in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
Tools and skills named
Data
- Databricks7×
- Data modeling
- Data warehouse
Cloud & infra
- Distributed systems2×
- Kubernetes2×
- AWS
- Azure
- Docker
- GCP
Languages
- C++
- Java
- Scala
- SQL
Product & design
- User experience2×
Go to market
- SaaS
Security & compliance
- Security
Words the posting leans on
- data12×
- experience7×
- apps6×
- customers6×
- business4×
- product4×
- ai/bi3×
- engineers3×
- platform3×
- unity catalog3×
- already2×
- building2×
- business semantics2×
- catalog business2×
- context2×
- democratize data2×
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