Senior Staff Software Engineer/Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Databricks' Engineering team as a Senior Staff Software Engineer/Principal Software Engineer in Berlin (fully remote). You'll be a founding member of the Berlin site and contribute to the company's Lakehouse vision. This role involves the entire development cycle, working on a crucial product used by thousands of enterprises. You will build next-generation distributed data storage and processing systems, focusing on scalability, availability, and fault tolerance. The position requires extensive experience in large-scale distributed systems and a strong foundation in algorithms and data structures. You will also contribute to technical leadership and mentorship.

Requirements

• 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
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering
• 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 and responsibility over new projects
• Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services
• 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
• Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits and perks