Staff Software Engineer, Access Management

Databricks Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 181,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Access Management team in Bellevue, WA. You will shape the direction of core authorization services used by every user, application, and automated workload on our platform.

You’ll migrate to a unified authorization model, implement fine-grained controls, and define secure network ingress policies. The role demands strong security and distributed systems fundamentals, plus experience leading teams across locations.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in access management, identity, or authorization systems.
• Strong distributed systems and security fundamentals.
• Demonstrated technical leadership on a team, ideally across multiple locations.
• Track record of designing and shipping backend services at scale.

Responsibilities

• Evolve the access management platform’s core authorization service on the critical path of decisions.
• Consolidate permissions-checking across the platform into a unified model.
• Build fine-grained access controls such as scoped service identities, delegated access, and RBAC.
• Define network ingress access policy for customer resources.
• Raise availability and reliability of a high-throughput, low-latency authorization service.

Skills

Access management

Identity & authorization

Distributed systems

Security fundamentals

Technical leadership

Backend services

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Access Management team in Bellevue, WA. You will shape the direction of core authorization services used by every user, application, and automated workload on our platform.

You’ll migrate to a unified authorization model, implement fine-grained controls, and define secure network ingress policies. The role demands strong security and distributed systems fundamentals, plus experience leading teams across locations.