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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta at Databricks | London

DatabricksLondon, United Kingdom
On-site Full-time

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Experience Level

Senior

Qualifications

To excel in this role, you should possess: Proven experience in software engineering with a track record of solving complex technical challenges. Expertise in low-level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters. Strong architectural design skills with the ability to influence product roadmaps and take ownership of new projects. Experience in implementing tools that enhance automation and operability of services. Proficiency in preventing and investigating production issues through your extensive experience. Ability to plan and lead intricate technical projects that involve collaboration across multiple teams. Experience in mentoring team members, leading sprint planning, delegating tasks, and participating in project planning.

About the job

At Databricks, we're committed to empowering data teams to tackle some of the world's most challenging issues, including security threat detection and cancer drug development. Our mission is to create and manage the premier data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can dedicate their efforts to the high-value challenges crucial to their missions.

Our engineering teams develop cutting-edge products that meet significant real-world needs. We operate one of the largest-scale software platforms, comprising millions of virtual machines that generate terabytes of logs and process exabytes of data daily. Given our scale, we frequently encounter hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must effectively shield our customers from these challenges.

The Delta DML team is responsible for the core write-path operations for Delta Lake, the open-source storage layer underlying the Databricks Lakehouse. Our goal is to deliver industry-leading performance and a seamless user experience at massive scale, with most data written in Databricks passing through our platform. We innovate in performance through features like Low Shuffle Merge and Deletion Vectors, and actively contribute to open-source initiatives that unify Delta and Iceberg formats.

We are on the lookout for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our backend team. In this pivotal role, you will design, develop, and maintain robust backend systems that power Databricks workspaces. You will work on building the next-generation platform for serving workspace assets, ensuring high queries per second (QPS), low latency, reliability, and performance while proactively addressing future growth challenges. As a senior member of the team, your responsibilities will also include providing technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers, thereby enhancing the overall coding practices and system designs of the team.

About Databricks

Databricks is at the forefront of data and AI, providing a robust platform that allows organizations to harness the power of their data to drive innovation and solve critical problems.

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