Databricks · 22 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Bellevue, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$158K/yr - $214K/yr
5+ years expDatabricks is a leading data and AI company that enables data teams to tackle complex challenges. The Senior Software Engineer - Backend will build infrastructure and products for the Databricks platform, focusing on serverless and cloud technologies, and ensuring scalability and efficiency in a multi-cloud environment.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data IntegrationData ManagementData StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Build Databricks serverless platform that powers the big data, machine learning and Gen AI workloads
Automatically improve the performance and efficiency of workloads running on the platform while also ensuring they scale to millions of machines across a multi-cloud environment
Build cutting-edge OS, container and networking technologies that power the entire Databricks infrastructure, from internal infrastructure, to serverful, and to serverless platform
Improve the security, efficiency and reliability across the fleet
Build and grow a partner ecosystem for Databricks SQL
Build and offer a variety of toolkits to support partners and customers’ deep and seamless integrations with Databricks
Maintain and nurture productive and beneficial partnerships within the ecosystem
Build multi-language multi-user collaborative REPL experience for Databricks users with high level of reliability and responsiveness, with a focus on Data Science and AI/ML authoring and experimentation experiences in notebooks
Build tools, frameworks and platforms to allow Databricks engineers to build, deploy and operate services with 'batteries included'
Improve the scale, observability and safety of all Databricks services across different clouds while improving every engineer's developer experience
Qualification
Required
BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
5+ years of production level experience in one of: Java, Scala, Golang, C++, or similar language
Experience developing large-scale distributed systems
Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures
Experience with cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, or Kubernetes
Experience with security and systems that handle sensitive data
Benefits
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Company
Databricks
Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$26.05BKey Investors
JP MorganFidelity,Insight Partners,J.P. Morgan Asset ManagementAndreessen Horowitz,Insight Partners,MGX,Thrive Capital,WCM Investment Management
2026-01-23Debt Financing· $1.8B
2025-12-16Series Unknown· $4B
2025-09-08Series Unknown· $1B
Leadership Team
Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-founder
Ion Stoica
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman
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