Staff Software Engineer, Data Collection (Tags & SDKs)

Databricks · New York City, New York · Engineering - Pipeline · listed August 28, 2026

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The shape of it

Seniority
Staff
Experience asked
10+ years
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$190,900 – $253,750 USD
Requirements listed
10
Length
785 words

In the posting’s own words

First-party data collection is the entry point for everything downstream. It also runs on other people's websites and inside other people's apps, which raises the bar from a quality, reliability, and development experience. We are looking for an engineer to lead that surface, client and server side.

What it asks for · 10

  • 10+ years of engineering experience, including time as a tech lead, or leading other tech leads, on complex enterprise software projects
  • Ownership of an SDK or client library consumed by external developers, including native iOS and Android
  • Deep browser-side JavaScript experience: bundle size, async loading, CSP, storage and cookie restrictions, tracking prevention
  • High-throughput server-side collection: edge endpoints, batching, retries, and delivery guarantees
  • Practical grounding in consent and privacy requirements, including regional routing and data minimization
  • High ownership and bias for action in 0→1 environments: you are comfortable making pragmatic trade-offs, operating with incomplete information, and driving projects from idea through launch and adoption
  • Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and design teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives
  • Combination of technical and people leadership, for example, as a TLM (Nice to have)
  • Experience building a CDP, analytics SDK, or tag management product (Nice to have)
  • Experience with incident response for code deployed on customer properties (Nice to have)

What the job covers

  • Lead the collection stack end to end: browser tag, mobile SDKs, server-side endpoints, and the ingest path behind them
  • Define the schema and versioning contract, including compatibility across SDK versions already in the field
  • Lead identity handling that spans anonymous and authenticated records, across devices and sessions
  • Lead integrations with other CustomerLake products like Profile & Campaign Agents
  • Hold hard budgets on page weight, latency, and failure behavior, so that collection never degrades the host application
  • Partner closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build intuitive, scalable, and extensible solutions that drive user & business growth

Tools and skills named

Product & design
  • Product management
  • User experience
Data
  • Databricks
Languages
  • JavaScript

Words the posting leans on

  • data6×
  • lead6×
  • experience5×
  • collection4×
  • product4×
  • sdk4×
  • engineering3×
  • nice3×
  • people3×
  • technical3×
  • building2×
  • business2×
  • client2×
  • customer2×
  • deep2×
  • design2×

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