About this role
About the Role Databricks seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to act as a technical architect and engineering leader for the Lakeflow pipelines platform. You will own the long term technical direction for how pipelines are defined, optimized, executed, and operated, shaping the systems that data teams rely on daily.
What You'll Do
- Architect and deliver a highly scalable, fault-tolerant platform for declarative pipelines and materialized views serving thousands of production customers.
- Lead deep systems work: performance diagnosis on large production clusters, low level debugging, and optimization that reduces cost and latency.
- Bridge the gap between research and production by bringing ideas from literature or internal R&D into customer facing systems.
- Shape product direction alongside engineering and product leadership, owning technical strategy from design through delivery.
- Drive complex, multi team technical initiatives that require sustained coordination and clear technical judgment.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of experience building, operating, and evolving large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Deep expertise in one or more of: database internals, storage systems, distributed computing, streaming systems, language/API design, or performance engineering.
- Track record of executing against a multi year technical vision through well sequenced incremental milestones.
- Strong algorithmic foundations with practical judgment to know when they matter and when simpler solutions win.
- A bias toward customer impact over technical novelty for its own sake.
- Experience building alignment across teams and driving initiatives from conception through customer adoption.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent depth of experience).
Nice to Have
Compensation & Benefits
- Local Pay Range USD 228,600—$314,250 per year. The total compensation package may include annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits. Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For more information, refer to the location specific page.
- Benefits and perks vary by region; comprehensive details are available in the regional benefits information.