Staff Software Engineer - Backend
Databricks · London, United Kingdom · Engineering · listed January 29, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Staff
Experience asked
8+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
5
Length
823 words
In the posting’s own words
Lakebase enables teams to deliver applications faster with an optimized database developer experience, integration with the lakehouse, and simplified operations. It provides a managed Postgres transactional layer for application state and workloads that combine operational data, analytics, and AI. You'll join as one of the founding engineers to build out both the Lakebase product and our London presence.
What it asks for · 5
- BS degree (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.
- 8+ years of production level experience in one of: Java, Scala, C++, or similar language.
- Experience developing large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures.
- Knowledge of SQL.
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.
- Build reliable, secure and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends, e.g., AWS S3, GCS, Azure Blob Store.
- Develop product features that empower our customers to easily store and access their data.
- Solve reliability problems related to Lakebase.
- Actively find causes of downtime and systematically improve or remove root causes.
- Help the org define SLIs, meet SLOs, and drive long-term reliability improvements.
Degree language
- BS degree (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.
Tools and skills named
Cloud & infra
- Distributed systems2×
- Observability2×
- AWS
- Azure
Data
- Data warehouse2×
- Databricks2×
- PostgreSQL2×
Languages
- C++
- Java
- Scala
- SQL
Go to market
- SaaS
Product & design
- User experience
Ways of working
- Cross-functional
Words the posting leans on
- data14×
- lakebase10×
- build6×
- every6×
- platform6×
- reliability6×
- customers5×
- experience5×
- services5×
- infrastructure4×
- product4×
- building3×
- database3×
- problems3×
- proxy3×
- access2×
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