Staff Software Engineer - Multi Cloud Efficiency

Job title: Staff Software Engineer - Multi Cloud Efficiency

About the Role As a Staff Software Engineer, you will serve as the technical lead for the Bengaluru MCE chapter. You will define the technical strategy for efficiency projects where solutions are not yet known and partner with finance to drive massive-scale cloud cost optimization across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

What You'll Do

• Architect at scale: lead design and implementation of systems to optimize cloud spend, including reserved-instance automation, tag-based cost attribution at scale, automated waste-cleanup policy engines, and cross-cloud resource governance.
• Drive Technical Strategy: define the roadmap for our efficiency pillar, conduct design reviews and risk assessments for core infrastructure.
• Engineer for Efficiency: design scalable systems for regression detection and automated resource rightsizing; build frameworks that measure their efficiency footprint and enforce automated release gates to prevent changes that regress agreed efficiency targets (SLOs).
• Operational Excellence: serve as the technical authority for incident management and improve stability and reliability of internal platform tools.
• Technical Leadership: mentor junior and senior engineers, raise engineering quality, and drive engineering culture across the organization.
• Build self-driving efficiency systems: design automation and AI-driven detection, decisioning, and autonomous remediation to keep cost governance running at scale.

What We're Looking For

• 9+ years of experience building production-grade, distributed systems in Java, Scala, C++, or Go.
• Proven track record of architecting solutions for large-scale infrastructure, cloud computing (AWS/Azure/GCP), and container orchestration (Kubernetes/Docker).
• Deep expertise in identifying and solving performance bottlenecks in high-throughput, distributed environments.
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical requirements for ambiguous problems where the path forward is not obvious.
• T-shaped engineering skills: depth in distributed systems and breadth across cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and software lifecycles.

Compensation & Benefits

• Benefits: comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all employees; region-specific details can be found here.
• Diversity & Inclusion: Databricks is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel; hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards.