Notifications

Loading notifications...
Databricks Cover

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

Databricks
Aarhus, Denmark Full Time Negotiable Sep 15, 2026

About the Job

At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are central ...

Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We develop and operate one of the largest scale software platforms. The fleet consists of millions of virtual machines, generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day. At our scale, we regular...

The Delta DML team owns the core write-path operations for Delta Lake, the open-source storage layer behind the Databricks Lakehouse. Our mission is to deliver industry-leading performance and a seamless user experience at massive scale, with most data written in Databricks flowing through our platform. We drive per...

Key Responsibilities

Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering.
Low level systems debugging, performance measurement, and 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.

Required Skills & Abilities

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.

 
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.
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
At Databricks, we are 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. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
Compliance
If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Qualifications

Education: Postgraduate

Apply now

Please let Databricks know you found this job on JobVista. This helps us grow!