Staff Frontend Engineer - UI Platform - Seattle

Databricks; Washington; On-site; USD 181,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health coverage

401(k) Plan

Equity awards

Flexible time off

Paid parental leave

Family Planning

Gym reimbursement

Annual personal development fund

Work headphones reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Business travel accident insurance

Mental wellness resources

Job summary

Databricks seeks a Staff Frontend Engineer to help build a robust, scalable UI platform that makes data insights effortless. You will collaborate with product management to define user experiences across consoles and deliver reusable UI primitives that power cross-surface features.

The role emphasizes customer obsession and end-to-end ownership—from loading data to deploying production artifacts—while leading multi-quarter initiatives with measurable impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• 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.

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 (from pilot pages to scaled adoption).

Skills

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

Front-end architecture

UI/UX design

React/Angular/Vue

Performance/Accessibility/Security

Tools

React

Angular

Vue.js/Ember

Job description

At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges, from designing next‑gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you will work with your team and product management to make insights from data simple. We are looking for engineers that are customer obsessed, who can take on the full scope of the product and user experience beyond the technical implementation. You'll set the foundation for how we build robust, scalable and delightful products.

Below are some example experiences you'll create for our customers to achieve the full project lifecycle from loading data, visualizing results, creating statistical models, and deploying as production artifacts.

• 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 (from pilot pages to scaled adoption).

What we look for:

• 10+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript

• 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

• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or VueJs/Ember)

• Familiarity with server‑side web technologies is a plus

• Knowledge of (and a passion for) current trends and best practices in front‑end architecture, including performance, accessibility, security and usability

• Experience building large‑scale products

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision

• 401(k) Plan

• Equity awards

• Flexible time off

• Paid parental leave

• Family Planning

• Gym reimbursement

• Annual personal development fund

• Work headphones reimbursement

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Business travel accident insurance

• Mental wellness resources

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page.

Local Pay Range

$181,000—$261,000 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region.

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