Staff Software Engineer - Databases

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At Databricks, we build powerful infrastructure that accelerates innovation and enables data teams to deliver with confidence and scale. Our unified schema migration platform underpins automated, observable, and developer-friendly workflows—ensuring Databricks can continue evolving rapidly across thousands of databases and 60+ mission-critical services.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll lead the design, development, and reliability of our global platform that manages schema and data changes at scale:

• Ensuring the scalability and reliability of schema and data operations across Databricks’ global footprint.
• Driving predictable deployments by architecting robust test harnesses and automation.
• Elevating the developer experience by building accessible, resilient tools that make complex migrations feel simple.
• Guaranteeing the integrity of both schema and data through safe, efficient backfill strategies.

• 12+ years of professional experience in backend systems or platform engineering.
• Experience in building platforms, infrastructure, or database engineering, especially with MySQL, TiDB.
• Track record of building and scaling mission-critical platforms supporting high-throughput, global services.
• Experience with schema migration frameworks, CI/CD automation and developer tooling.
• Champion of developer experience, creating clear, reliable, and user-friendly workflows.

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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.

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