Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Scalable Systems

Databricks Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our backend team. You will design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems powering Databricks workspaces, ensuring high QPS, low latency, and reliability at scale.

You will provide technical leadership, mentorship to junior engineers, and drive architectural decisions. You will plan and lead complex projects across teams, influence roadmaps, and contribute to improving coding practices and system designs.

Qualifications

• 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend architectures

Algorithms & data structures

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors

Job description

Databricks is seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our backend team. You will design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems powering Databricks workspaces, ensuring high QPS, low latency, and reliability at scale.

You will provide technical leadership, mentorship to junior engineers, and drive architectural decisions. You will plan and lead complex projects across teams, influence roadmaps, and contribute to improving coding practices and system designs.