Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

Databricks Inc.; Aarhus; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data and AI infrastructure company based in Aarhus, Denmark is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join their backend team. This role involves designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend systems that power their platform, ensuring high performance and reliability. Ideal candidates will have over 15 years of experience in distributed systems and a strong foundation in algorithms. The position offers opportunities for technical leadership and mentorship within the team.

Qualifications

• 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems for Databricks workspaces.
• Build architecture design and influence product roadmap.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers.

Skills

Building and supporting large-scale distributed systems

Low level systems debugging

Performance measurement and optimization

Architecture design

Mentoring and technical leadership

Algorithms and data structures

Customer satisfaction

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors

Job description

At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are central to their own missions.

Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We develop and operate one of the largest scale software platforms. The fleet consists of millions of virtual machines, generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day. At our scale, we regularly observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above.

The Delta DML team owns the core write-path operations for Delta Lake, the open-source storage layer behind the Databricks Lakehouse. Our mission is to deliver industry-leading performance and a seamless user experience at massive scale, with most data written in Databricks flowing through our platform. We drive performance innovations like Low Shuffle Merge and Deletion Vectors and actively contribute to open source efforts to unify Delta and Iceberg formats.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our backend team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend systems that power Databricks workspaces. You will build the next-generation platform for serving workspace assets, ensuring high QPS, low latency, reliable, and performant systems, proactively addressing the future growth challenges. Additionally, as a senior member of the team, you will provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers, contributing to the overall improvement of team coding practices and system designs.

The Impact you will have:

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering.
• Low level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters.
• Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.
• Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services.
• Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.
• Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
• Contribute as a technical team lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.

What we look for:

• 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
• Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

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