High-Impact Senior Software Architect

7 days ago

San Francisco, California, United States Databricks Inc. Full time

At Databricks Inc., we are passionate about empowering data teams to tackle the world's most complex challenges. By building and operating a cutting-edge data and AI infrastructure platform, our customers can gain deep insights to drive business growth.

About the Team:

The Platform Engineering team at Databricks is responsible for designing and developing the core infrastructure that powers our platform. This includes monitoring, observability, language support, runtime, application frameworks, and developer platform. We are in the process of rebuilding our platform from the ground up to meet the growing needs of our business.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join this team and have a significant impact on the future of our infrastructure. As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for spearheading our strategy, leading high-stakes projects with a long-term vision of our platform's architecture, and driving large-scale initiatives that power critical data and AI solutions.

You will be a force multiplier, working closely with senior IC leadership across the company to shape the future of Databricks. You will balance technical depth with strategic influence and mentor the next generation of engineers. This is an exceptional opportunity to create lasting impact within the engineering team and across the company.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop scalable experimentation platforms and metrics-driven processes to ensure safe, data-informed deployments.
  • Build reliable software and service frameworks for high-coverage pre-production testing and create systems that enhance automation, monitoring, and cloud cost visibility.
  • Design and optimize tools for seamless cloud infrastructure provisioning, enabling engineers to manage services effectively across all environments with minimal friction.
  • Implement secure, end-to-end logging and comprehensive metrics systems that allow easy and thorough monitoring and analysis across our large-scale infrastructure.
  • Amply the productivity of every Databricks engineer by tenfold through best-in-class developer infrastructure.
  • Lead cross-functional projects, influence architectural decisions, and provide mentorship to engineering teams to drive innovation and uphold high standards for operational excellence.

Requirements:

  • Strong industry experience and track record of developing, building, and supporting large-scale infrastructure.
  • Ability to think long-term while delivering incremental, measurable impact. You can balance big-picture strategic thinking with a passion for executing on high-priority initiatives.
  • Coding chops, clean, elegant, bug-free code in languages like Java, GO.
  • Must have led teams of engineers to deliver autonomously on large multi-functionally driven projects.
  • Proven track record of driving innovation within highly technical teams. You've led complex projects to fruition and are motivated by solving high-impact problems with elegant, scalable solutions.
  • Experienced at Cross Team Communication: Strong flair for effective communication and collaboration - you know when to push on and when to step back.
  • Pull the bar on engineering standard processes and help leaders build a strong engineering culture.
  • Passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers.
  • Expertise in one or more areas around rpc frameworks, observability infrastructure, developer infrastructure, AI-based tooling, and performance engineering is a huge plus.

Pay Range Transparency:

Databricks Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is $232,000 — $313,000 USD per year. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location.

About Us:

Databricks Inc. is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics, and AI. Our headquarters are in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and were founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow.

Benefits:

At Databricks Inc., we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit our benefits page.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks Inc. are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

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