Staff Frontend Engineer: Elevate Data UI & UX

Databricks Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 181,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

401(k) Plan

Flexible time off

Paid parental leave

Family Planning

Gym reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Mental wellness resources

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer in Seattle to drive high-impact UI work across the Databricks platform. You will lead the design and implementation of reusable UI primitives, cross-surface navigation, and robust frontend data clients, partnering with product teams to deliver scalable, user-friendly experiences.

You will influence front-end architecture, performance, accessibility, and security while mentoring teams and delivering multi-quarter initiatives that shape the next era

Qualifications

• Experience leading large multi-quarter efforts with a demonstrated customer or business impact.
• Passion for user experience and design and an understanding of front-end architecture
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
• Motivated by delivering customer value
• Familiarity with server-side web technologies is a plus
• Knowledge of current trends and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance, accessibility, security and usability

Responsibilities

• Design and ship reusable UI primitives and component patterns that behave consistently across consoles, enabling a write-once, run-anywhere model.
• Define application bootstrapping and cross-surface navigation primitives that abstract console boundaries while enforcing correct AuthZ and routing.
• Deliver unified frontend data clients and service components.
• Create, deploy, test, and upgrade platform components that power complex frontend data exploration and visualization experiences.
• Provide reference patterns, templates, and tests that standardize portability, reduce rework, and accelerate delivery of cross-surface features.
• Partner with feature teams to land single-console experiences and migrations on the platform.

Skills

Frontend architecture

UI/UX design

Performance optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership

Tools

React

Web technologies

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer in Seattle to drive high-impact UI work across the Databricks platform. You will lead the design and implementation of reusable UI primitives, cross-surface navigation, and robust frontend data clients, partnering with product teams to deliver scalable, user-friendly experiences.

You will influence front-end architecture, performance, accessibility, and security while mentoring teams and delivering multi-quarter initiatives that shape the next era