Senior Staff Software Engineer/Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Databricks' Engineering team as a Staff or Principal Software Engineer in Berlin (fully remote), contributing to the development of core products used by thousands of enterprises globally. As a founding member of the Berlin site, you'll be involved in the entire development lifecycle, working on the next generation of distributed data storage and processing systems. You will build highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant systems, debug low-level systems, and contribute to architecture design and product roadmap. You will also mentor others and lead technical projects. This is a multi-year commitment to achieve the Lakehouse vision, exemplifying Databricks' core values.

Requirements

• 10+ 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