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Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Databricks
San Francisco, California Full Time USD 166,000 - 225,000 p.a. Sep 17, 2026

About the Job

At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers ...

As a software engineer with a backend focus, you will work with your team to build infrastructure and products for the Databricks platform at scale.

Our backend teams span many domains, from our core compute fabric resource management infrastructure, to service platforms, to machine learning infrastructure. For instance, you might work on challenges such as:

Key Responsibilities

Resource management infrastructure powering the big data and machine learning workloads on the Databricks platform in a scalable, secure, and cloud-agnostic way
Develop reliable, scalable services and client libraries that work with massive amounts of data on the cloud, across geographic regions and Cloud providers
Build tools to allow Databricks engineers to operate their services across different clouds and environments
Build services, products and infrastructure at the intersection of machine learning and distributed systems.

Required Skills & Abilities

BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
5+ years of production level experience in one of: Java, Scala, C++, or similar language.
Experience developing large-scale distributed systems.
Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures.
Experience with cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes.
Experience with security and systems that handle sensitive data.
Good knowledge of SQL.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor

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