Staff Software Engineer - Backend
Databricks · Bengaluru, India · Engineering - Pipeline · listed December 3, 2025
The shape of it
Seniority
Staff
Experience asked
12+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
4
Length
633 words
In the posting’s own words
1. Our Backend teams span many domains across our essential service platforms. For instance, you might work on challenges such as:
What it asks for · 4
- 12+ years of production level experience in one of: Python, Java, Scala, C++, or similar language.
- BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
- Experience developing large-scale distributed systems from scratch
- Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures.
What the job covers
- Problems that span from product to infrastructure including: distributed systems, at-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration, and developer experience.
- Deliver reliable and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends, e.g., AWS S3, Azure Blob Store.
- Build reliable, scalable services, e.g. Scala, Kubernetes, and data pipelines, e.g. Apache Spark™, Databricks, to power the pricing infrastructure that serves millions of cluster-hours per day and develop product features that empower customers to easily view and control platform usage.
- Apache Spark™
- Data Plane Storage
- Delta Lake
- Delta Pipelines
- Performance Engineering
Degree language
- BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
Tools and skills named
Data
- Databricks4×
- Spark4×
- Data pipelines
Cloud & infra
- Distributed systems2×
- AWS
- Azure
- Kubernetes
Languages
- Scala2×
- C++
- Java
- Python
Product & design
- User experience2×
- Product management
Models & research
- Machine learning2×
Go to market
- SaaS
Words the posting leans on
- data9×
- experience5×
- services5×
- infrastructure4×
- platform4×
- backend3×
- customers3×
- e.g3×
- product3×
- span3×
- apache spark2×
- architecture2×
- building2×
- challenges2×
- dds2×
- delta2×
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