Senior Staff AI-Native Web Platform Engineer

Databricks Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 198,000 - 273,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks Inc. in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Sr. Staff Software Engineer for the AI-Native Web Platform to own the platform layer—web framework, design system, CMS, and AI-enabled tooling. You will lead technical decisions, drive platform adoption, and shape the AI-native SDLC across teams.

You will collaborate with engineering and marketing leaders, influence architectural choices, and mentor engineers to raise the bar for AI-native platform engineering at scale.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record of technical leadership and impact.
• 3+ years of engineering leadership experience, owning software systems end-to-end.
• Proven track record as a technical leader of a web platform with ownership of design systems, rendering frameworks, edge delivery, CI/CD and infrastructure.
• Deep hands‑on expertise across the full web stack (React, TypeScript, Node.js).
• Demonstrated ability to make and execute multi-layer architectural decisions on a live production platform.
• Experience sequencing frontend framework migrations without production disruption.
• Clear perspective on AI-native software development and a track record of building toward it.
• Familiarity with agentic systems or LLM-powered tooling is a strong plus.
• Strong ability to influence technical leaders and drive alignment across stakeholders.
• History of driving technical transformation with rigor and execution discipline.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical roadmap for the web platform: components, rendering, CMS, CI/CD, and developer tooling, AI-native from the start.
• Influence organization-wide architectural decisions and contribute to the AI-native engineering north star.
• Pioneer an AI-native SDLC with agentic unlocks across code generation, testing, review, deployment, and production monitoring.
• Define evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and feedback loops for reliable agentic workflows.
• Mentor and grow engineers, setting the standard for AI-native thinking and execution.

Skills

Leadership & Strategy

Web Platform Leadership

Architectural Decisions

Mentoring Engineers

Cross-functional Collaboration

AI-native Software Development

Production/Incident Mgmt

Tools

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Job description

Databricks Inc. in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Sr. Staff Software Engineer for the AI-Native Web Platform to own the platform layer—web framework, design system, CMS, and AI-enabled tooling. You will lead technical decisions, drive platform adoption, and shape the AI-native SDLC across teams.

You will collaborate with engineering and marketing leaders, influence architectural choices, and mentor engineers to raise the bar for AI-native platform engineering at scale.