Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - AI/ML Environments
Databricks · Mountain View, California · Engineering - Pipeline · listed October 29, 2025
The shape of it
Seniority
Senior
Experience asked
5+ years
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$166,000 – $220,000 USD
Requirements listed
6
Length
733 words
In the posting’s own words
As part of the ML/AI Environments team you will build the system that enables the AI researchers and engineers to set up their desired training and serving environments. You’ll be joining a high-agency, high-visibility team operating at the frontier of AI infrastructure — with deep ties to research, product, and real-world enterprise use cases. Databricks Mosaic AI is one of our fastest-growing businesses helping thousands of our customers democratize AI within their organizations. We’re building the infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI.
What it asks for · 6
- 5+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering with a focus on building systems
- Strong programming skills in Python, Scala or Java
- Experience with distributed systems, scalable APIs, or cloud-native infrastructure
- Familiarity with service-oriented architecture, deployment pipelines, and system observability
- Strong product and ownership mindset — you care about building the right solution, not just any solution
- Strong understanding of dependency management technologies including virtual environments or containerization technologies.
What the job covers
- Build the infrastructure that enables ML and AI users to configure training and serving environments easily, reliably and reproducibly.
- Collaborate with other AI infrastructure teams to build the features that customers need to get more from the Databricks platform. Examples include improving performance of setting up virtual environments for short training and data processing sessions, improving observability to help customers debug when runs fail, etc.
- Interact with turnkey customers and product managers to envision new features and identify areas for improvement.
- Shape how developers and data scientists build and interact with AI on Databricks.
Tools and skills named
Data
- Databricks4×
Cloud & infra
- Observability2×
- Distributed systems
Languages
- Java
- Python
- Scala
Models & research
- Machine learning2×
Product & design
- User experience
Words the posting leans on
- infrastructure8×
- customers6×
- data6×
- build4×
- building4×
- system4×
- product3×
- training3×
- virtual3×
- deep2×
- enables2×
- engineers2×
- experience2×
- features2×
- improving2×
- interact2×
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