About the job
Join Databricks as a Staff Software Engineer focused on Backend development, where you'll play a crucial role in enabling data teams to tackle some of the world's most challenging problems, ranging from security threat detection to cancer drug development. Our mission is to build and operate the world's leading data and AI infrastructure platform, allowing our customers to concentrate on the high-value challenges central to their missions.
Founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, Databricks has rapidly expanded from a small office in Berkeley, California, to a global powerhouse with over 1,000 employees. Our platform is trusted by thousands of organizations, from startups to Fortune 100 companies, making us one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies worldwide.
As part of our engineering team, you'll develop and maintain highly technical products that address significant real-world needs. We constantly push the limits of data and AI technology while ensuring the resilience, security, and scalability essential for our customers' success.
Our software operates at an impressive scale, managing millions of virtual machines and processing exabytes of data daily. We frequently encounter cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and it is vital that our software effectively shields customers from these issues.
As a Backend Software Engineer, you'll collaborate closely with your team and product management to prioritize, design, implement, test, and operate micro-services for the Databricks platform. Your responsibilities will include writing software in Scala/Java, building data pipelines using Apache Spark and Apache Kafka, integrating third-party applications, and interacting with cloud APIs such as AWS and Azure.
Possible teams you could join include:
Data Science and Machine Learning Infrastructure: Develop services and infrastructure that blend machine learning and distributed systems, empowering collaborative workspaces, notebooks, IDE integrations, and project management tools.
Compute Fabric: Create resource management infrastructure that supports big data and machine learning workloads in a robust, flexible, secure, and cloud-agnostic manner, managing millions of virtual machines.

