Staff Software Engineer, Lakeflow Pipelines DR
Databricks · Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California · Engineering - Pipeline · listed September 11, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Staff
Experience asked
8+ years
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$192,000 – $260,000 USD
Requirements listed
3
Length
702 words
In the posting’s own words
As a Staff Engineer on the part of the Lakeflow Disaster Recovery team, you will design and implement distributed systems that replicate and recover pipelines across regions. A pipeline is more than source code and output tables: it includes streaming checkpoints, source offsets, stateful operator state, table versions, transaction metadata, schedules, and dependencies across a dataflow graph. You will solve challenging problems involving consistency, idempotency, causal ordering, failover, failback, and safe recovery without silent data loss or duplication.
What it asks for · 3
- Ability to define and work toward a multi-year technical vision with incremental, production-quality deliverables
- 8+ years of experience working on related systems preferred
- Optional: PhD or advanced research experience in databases, distributed systems, or storage
Degree language
- Optional: PhD or advanced research experience in databases, distributed systems, or storage
Tools and skills named
Data
- Data warehouse4×
- Data pipelines
- Databricks
- ETL
Languages
- C++
- Go
- Java
- Python
- Scala
Cloud & infra
- Distributed systems3×
- Observability
Ways of working
- Testing2×
Words the posting leans on
- data9×
- pipelines6×
- systems6×
- lakehouse4×
- recovery4×
- streaming4×
- table4×
- consistency3×
- customers3×
- distributed systems3×
- engineering3×
- failure3×
- lakeflow3×
- transaction3×
- build2×
- databases2×
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