Senior Staff Production Engineer, AI-Driven Reliability

Cacheflow; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 228,600 - 314,250; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Staff Production Engineer to lead the strategic vision for the operational stability of our internal Databricks-on-Databricks environment.

You will guide the shift from traditional SRE models to an agent-driven, self-healing architecture supporting mission-critical workloads. You will drive 99.99% availability for compute, storage, and control plane services, while defining scalable strategies across 100+ regions and evangelizing Chaos Engineering practices across

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, or a related field.
• 10+ years of production-level experience as a Software Engineer or SRE in distributed, multi-cloud environments.
• You write code to solve operational problems and build automation to remove toil.
• Familiarity with LLM infrastructure, training/inference pipelines, or agentic frameworks is a plus.
• Operational grit and calm under pressure in large-scale systems.
• Experience building long-range technical roadmaps and cross-functional alignment.

Responsibilities

• Architect future self-healing infrastructure at scale with AI agents.
• Own the Data Platform's operational integrity enabling high availability for compute, storage and control planes.
• Establish the next generation of change safety protocols with automation and guardrails.
• Lead technical standards and evangelize modern SRE practices including Chaos Engineering.

Skills

10+ years experience

Code-focused

AI/LLM mindset

Operational grit

Strategic influence

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Scala

Java

Go

Python

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Staff Production Engineer to lead the strategic vision for the operational stability of our internal Databricks-on-Databricks environment.

You will guide the shift from traditional SRE models to an agent-driven, self-healing architecture supporting mission-critical workloads. You will drive 99.99% availability for compute, storage, and control plane services, while defining scalable strategies across 100+ regions and evangelizing Chaos Engineering practices across