Sr Staff Software Engineer (Backend) Bengaluru, India

Job title: Sr Staff Software Engineer (Backend) Bengaluru, India

About the Role Databricks is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for its Engineering team in Bengaluru. You will own the product or infrastructure direction in a major area, drive it from initial development to scalable solutions with clear business impact, mentor senior engineers, contribute to recruiting, and lead high-impact company projects.

What You'll Do

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering expertise.
• Deliver a highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers.
• Low-level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters.
• Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership over new projects.
• Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.
• Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
• Be a strong influencer or driver in the organization’s roadmap and direction.
• Lead a TLG or similar review committee, or initiate and sustain an org/eng-wide initiative driven by engineering needs.
• Break down complex problems quickly into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, and de-risk through prototyping/validation.
• Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.

What We're Looking For

• 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
• Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction.

Compensation & Benefits

• 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 click here.
• Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: Databricks is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards.