Senior Staff Data Systems Engineer - Managed Tables

Databricks; Mountain View (WY); On-site; USD 229,000 - 314,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is the data and AI company behind the Unity Catalog ManagedTables portfolio. This role focuses on building autonomous analytical datasystems with high performance across production clusters and storage optimizations for ML workloads.

You will influence product roadmaps, drive cross-team collaboration, and plan complex projects while mentoring engineers and contributing to a scalable architecture that delivers strong business value.

Qualifications

• 15+ years industry experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures.
• Experience turning multi-year visions into incremental deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Solve real business needs at scale by applying software engineering experience and collaboration with Product partners.
• Deliver a highly scalable, available, and interoperable architecture for Managed Tables.
• Low level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters.
• Plan and lead complicated technical projects that involve multiple teams.
• Mentor and up-level engineers on the team.

Skills

Distributed systems

Algorithms

Data structures

Performance optimization

Mentoring

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related

Tools

Apache Spark

Job description

Databricks is the data and AI company behind the Unity Catalog ManagedTables portfolio. This role focuses on building autonomous analytical datasystems with high performance across production clusters and storage optimizations for ML workloads.

You will influence product roadmaps, drive cross-team collaboration, and plan complex projects while mentoring engineers and contributing to a scalable architecture that delivers strong business value.