Staff GenAI Research Scientist - Retrieval

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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 platform, so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are central to their own missions.

The Databricks AI Research organization enables companies to develop AI models and systems using their own data, with technologies ranging from pre-training LLMs from scratch to augmented generation using the latest retrieval techniques. Databricks AI does so by producing novel science and putting it into production. Databricks AI is committed to the belief that a company’s AI models are just as valuable as any other core IP, and that high-quality AI models should be available to all.

Job Description 

As a Staff Research Scientist on the Enterprise Agents team, you will be responsible for keeping up with the latest developments in Agent Context, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Assistants, RAG, Embeddings, and advancing the scientific frontier by creating new techniques that go beyond the state of the art. You will work together on a collaborative team of researchers and engineers with diverse backgrounds and technical training. And most importantly, you will love our customers: our goal is to make our customers successful in applying state-of-the-art LLMs and AI systems, and we encode our scientific expertise into our products to make that possible.

The Impact you will have

As a Staff Research Scientist on the AI Research Team at Databricks, You Will: 

• Define and lead independent research agendas on Information Retrieval for reusable Agent components, conducting experiments to empirically validate hypotheses and benchmark against state-of-the-art approaches.
• Drive research and technical strategy across enterprise retrieval and search, including workspace search, vector search.
• Drive algorithmic innovations for Retrieval within Large Language Models. 
• Experience with Agent Benchmarks for retrieval, text-embeddings and LLM Data Quality. 

What We Look for

• 5+ years of 
• PhD in Computer Science or related field with strong foundations in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval 
• Developing and implementing methods that extend and improve model capabilities, reliability, and safety. 
• Strong preference for candidates with first-author publications at top ML/systems conferences (EMNLP, ICLR, ACL, NeurIPs) focused on optimization or efficiency.

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 platform so our customers can focus on the high-value challenges that are central to their own missions.

The Databricks AI Research organization enables companies to develop AI models and agents using their own data, with technologies ranging from post-training open source LLMs to developing advanced multi-agent architectures. Databricks AI does so by producing novel science and putting it into production. Databricks AI is committed to the belief that a company’s AI models and agents are just as valuable as any other core IP, and that high-quality AI should be available to all.

Job Description 

As a Sr. Research Scientist on the Scaling team, you will be responsible for keeping up with the latest developments in deep learning and advancing the scientific frontier by creating new techniques that go beyond the state of the art. You will work together on a collaborative team of researchers and engineers with diverse backgrounds and technical training. And most importantly, you will love our customers: our goal is to make our customers successful in applying state-of-the-art LLMs and AI systems, and we encode our scientific expertise into our products to make that possible.

The Impact you will have

As a Sr. Research Scientist on the AI Research Team at Databricks, You Will: 

• Define and lead independent research agendas on foundation model efficiency in model training and reinforcement learning, conducting experiments to empirically validate hypotheses and benchmark against state-of-the-art approaches
• Drive algorithmic innovations for large-scale neural network training or inference (e.g., novel optimizers, low-precision techniques, model adaptation methods)
• Optimize ML systems for distributed training, memory efficiency, and compute efficiency through hands-on implementation.

What We Look for

• MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field with strong foundations in machine learning and systems
• Proven ability to write high-quality, efficient code in Python and PyTorch for research implementation and experimentation
• Strong preference for candidates with first-author publications at top ML/systems conferences (ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, MLSys) focused on optimization or efficiency.

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 platform so our customers can focus on the high-value challenges that are central to their own missions.

The Mosaic AI organization enables companies to develop AI models and systems using their own data, with technologies ranging from pre-training LLMs from scratch to augmented generation using the latest retrieval techniques. Mosaic AI does so by producing novel science and putting it into production. Mosaic AI is committed to the belief that a company’s AI models are just as valuable as any other core IP, and that high-quality AI models should be available to all.

Job Description

As a research engineer on the Scaling team, you will be responsible for keeping up with the latest developments in deep learning and advancing the scientific frontier by creating new techniques that go beyond the state of the art. You will work together on a collaborative team of researchers and engineers with diverse backgrounds and technical training. And most importantly, you will love our customers: our goal is to make our customers successful in applying state-of-the-art LLMs and AI systems, and we encode our scientific expertise into our products to make that possible.

The Impact you will have

As a research engineer on the Scaling Team at Databricks, you will: 

• Drive performance improvements through advanced optimization techniques including kernel fusion, mixed precision, memory layout optimization, tiling strategies, and tensorization for training-specific patterns
• Design, implement, and optimize high-performance GPU kernels for training workloads (e.g., attention mechanisms, custom layers, gradient computation, activation functions) targeting NVIDIA architectures
• Design and implement distributed training frameworks for large language models, including parallelism strategies (data, tensor, pipeline, ZeRO-based) and optimized communication patterns for gradient synchronization and collective operations
• Profile, debug, and optimize end-to-end training workflows to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, applying memory optimization techniques like activation checkpointing, gradient sharding, and mixed precision training.

What We Look for

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field with hands-on experience writing and tuning CUDA kernels for ML training applications, or hands-on experience in distributed training frameworks (PyTorch DDP, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM, FSDP) 
• Strong understanding of NVIDIA GPU architecture (memory hierarchy, tensor cores, warp scheduling, SM occupancy) and proficiency with CUDA debugging/profiling tools (Nsight, NVProf)
• Deep understanding of parallelism techniques and memory optimization strategies for large-scale model training, with proven ability to debug and optimize distributed workloads
• Strong software engineering skills in Python and PyTorch, with experience supporting production training workflows and knowledge of LLM training dynamics including hyperparameter tuning and optimization strategies.

Staff Software Engineer - AI Research Infrastructure

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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 platform so our customers can focus on the high-value challenges that are central to their own missions.

The Databricks AI Research organization enables companies to develop AI models and agents using their own data, with technologies ranging from post-training open source LLMs to developing advanced multi-agent architectures. Databricks AI does so by producing novel science and putting it into production. Databricks AI is committed to the belief that a company’s AI models and agents are just as valuable as any other core IP, and that high-quality AI should be available to all.

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer, AI Research Infrastructure, you will be developing and running the research stack that powers Databricks AI Research. You will design and build services that schedule, orchestrate, and observe large‑scale training and inference experiment workloads across thousands of GPUs, improve our dev tooling and ensure that researchers can iterate quickly without sacrificing reliability, efficiency, or security.

You’ll partner closely with research scientists, ML engineers, and platform teams to turn experimental workloads into robust, repeatable pipelines, and to push the limits of what our infrastructure can support.

The Impact you will have

As a Staff Software Engineer on the AI Research Infra Team at Databricks, you will: 

• Design and implement infrastructure that supports large‑scale experiments, data processing, and model training (e.g., HPC clusters, GPU fleets, or cloud‑based systems)
• Enable researchers to go from idea to large‑scale experiment in minutes, not days, by building powerful abstractions for job submission, scheduling, and monitoring.
• Create tooling that improves research developer productivity, such as experiment management systems, CI/testing infrastructure for research code, and workflows that reduce iteration time.
• Influence the long‑term roadmap for research computation, shaping how Databricks AI Research train, evaluate, and ship models to customers.
• Serve as a technical mentor and force multiplier for other engineers working on compute, infra, and AI systems.

What We Look for

• BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial time working on large‑scale distributed systems or infrastructure.
• Have deep experience with building and operating distributed systems, data pipelines, or large‑scale backend services, ideally involving GPUs, clusters, or major cloud providers.
• Are proficient in one or more systems programming languages (e.g., C++, Rust, Go, Java, Scala) and can design, implement, and debug complex services.
• Have built or significantly contributed to cluster schedulers, resource managers, or large‑scale job orchestration systems (e.g., Kubernetes, Slurm, Ray, custom internal systems).
• Understand modern ML training and inference workflows (e.g., distributed training, model parallelism, fine‑tuning, evaluation), even if you’re not primarily a research scientist.
• Can move fast and be pragmatic in getting things done, while caring about operational excellence. Have driven complex systems from prototype to stable, well‑owned services.
• Communicate clearly with both researchers and engineers, and enjoy translating between research needs and infra realities.

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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 to their missions.

Customers trust Databricks with their most valuable data, and our Trust & Safety organization has the mission to build the most trusted Data and AI platform in the world. We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead foundational teams within Trust and Safety and define the strategy for how our core platform services are built and scaled. You will lead teams owning critical infrastructure and services that must be highly reliable, secure, and fast under extreme load.

The impact you will have:

• Define and drive the strategy for foundational systems operating at cloud scale.
• Build and scale a high-performing engineering team focused on large-scale distributed architecture, reliability, and security.
• Provide technical oversight on architecture and design for components that can operate at massive scale, with high requirements for reliability, security, and performance.
• Partner with engineering and product leaders across Databricks to embed secure, scalable solutions into every aspect of our product.
• Ensure alignment with industry best practices, helping customers meet their own governance, privacy, and security needs.
• Attract and grow top engineering talent, building a team culture that emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and customer trust.

What we look for:

• Experience in software engineering, with significant engineering leadership experience in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Experience building large-scale distributed systems with high availability and complex requirements.
• Strong track record building and managing high-performing teams, including experience scaling organizations through multiple phases of growth.
• Proven success driving cross-functional initiatives and influencing leaders without direct authority.
• Ability to provide technical direction at the architecture level while fostering a pragmatic execution mindset.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to inspire both teams and stakeholders.
• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.

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At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling Data and AI 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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started. 

Reporting to the Director, Product Operations, you will lead key projects, collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders in Engineering, Data Science, HR, and Finance to ensure our systems deliver operational excellence while scaling with the company. This serves as the foundation for data-driven decision making that help drive growth for Databricks. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in business operations with a deep understanding of data management principles and practices.

In this role, you will be leading and supporting Serverless Networking platform projects where you will work across teams to drive launch of external customer-facing networking features and enhance the underlying networking infrastructure that supports our internal product teams

Key Responsibilities:

• Build reports and dashboards for monthly, quarterly, and executive-level reporting
• Orchestrate jobs using Databricks Jobs and Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines with built-in data validation and reconciliations
• Establish coding, data management, and documentation standards and best practices
• Act as the connective tissue between Support, Product, Engineering, and Analytics to drive operational alignment, product readiness, and continuous improvement across support workflows
• Lead and execute strategic initiatives to scale global Support operations, including coverage models, KPI frameworks, and support process enhancements.
• Build and maintain dashboards that measure support effectiveness, surface product-driven case trends, and track customer experience across support channels.
• Support quarterly and annual planning cycles, including headcount, capacity modeling, and budget alignment in partnership with Finance and Workforce Management.
• Influence senior stakeholders by turning support and operational insights into clear, data-driven narratives that inform product and business decisions.

What We Look For: 

• 9+ years of experience in data and analytics, ideally at a SaaS company or large tech company

• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in a technical, mathematical, or analytical field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Economics). An MBA is highly preferred.

• Systems Thinking: Demonstrated experience in designing and scaling operational frameworks or internal software systems within a high-growth SaaS or enterprise technology environment.

• Analytical Proficiency: Expert-level ability to navigate large, complex datasets using SQL-based tools and Business Intelligence (BI) platforms to drive strategic decision-making.

• Stakeholder Management: Proven track record of leading high-stakes, multi-quarter initiatives involving diverse cross-functional teams such as Engineering, Product, and Sales.

• Strategic Communication: Exceptional ability to synthesize complex technical concepts into clear, actionable business strategies for non-technical executive audiences.

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Nice to Have: 

• Familiarity with Databricks tools, especially for extract/transform/load functions
• Experience working on Support Operations for SaaS based companies.
• Familiarity with tools like Salesforce, Zendesk, Jira, Looker/Tableau, and operational workflows
• Operations, Consulting or Strategy experience

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About Databricks

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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

About the Role

Databricks is seeking a Senior Staff Product Operations Manager to serve as the chief architect of our internal operational ecosystem. This is a high-leverage leadership role embedded within Engineering, designed to orchestrate the complex intersection of technical innovation, product lifecycle maturity, and global Go-to-Market (GTM) acceleration.

In this capacity, you will move beyond the management of existing processes to lead the creation of a formal Operational Association. You will be responsible for designing the high-fidelity frameworks that allow our engineering organization to remain agile while ensuring that every product investment is data-driven, transparent, and rigorously aligned with our long-term commercial strategy. This role is purpose-built for a strategic thinker who excels at navigating the "gray space" between a deep technical roadmap and the sophisticated financial requirements of a global enterprise platform.

Impact

• Operational Orchestration: Define and govern the strategic engagement model between Engineering, Product, and GTM, ensuring that product lifecycle milestones are seamlessly integrated with field readiness and revenue velocity.

• Investment Intelligence: Act as a critical advisor to executive leadership, applying a consultant’s rigor to evaluate business investments. You will analyze resource allocation, unit economics, and the opportunity costs inherent in scaling a world-class Data and AI platform.

• Synthesis of Ambiguity: Transform disparate, multi-dimensional data signals from across the organization into coherent business insights. You will be the definitive voice in translating "engineering velocity" into "market impact," providing the clarity necessary for high-stakes decision-making.

• Systems Transformation: Lead the evolution of our product development lifecycle (PDLC). You will identify structural bottlenecks and design scalable solutions that enhance organizational throughput without sacrificing technical excellence.

• Strategic Connective Tissue: Serve as the authoritative bridge between the "How" of technical execution and the "Why" of business value, ensuring a unified language of success across our most senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the connective tissue between Support, Product, Engineering, and Analytics to drive operational alignment, product readiness, and continuous improvement across support workflows.
• Lead and execute strategic initiatives to scale global Support operations, including coverage models, KPI frameworks, and support process enhancements.
• Translate operational pain points into product and tooling requirements—partnering with internal tools, engineering, and analytics teams to drive automation, triage efficiency, and AI assistant improvements.
• Build and maintain dashboards that measure support effectiveness, surface product-driven case trends, and track customer experience across support channels.
• Support quarterly and annual planning cycles, including headcount, capacity modeling, and budget alignment in partnership with Finance and Workforce Management.
• Influence senior stakeholders by turning support and operational insights into clear, data-driven narratives that inform product and business decisions.

What We Look For: 

• Professional Experience: Minimum of 9 years of professional experience in Management Consulting, Product Strategy, Technical Program Management, or Operations within the technology sector.

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical, mathematical, or analytical field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Economics). An MBA is highly preferred.

• Demonstrated experience in designing and scaling operational frameworks or internal software systems within a high-growth SaaS or enterprise technology environment.

• Expert-level ability to navigate large, complex datasets using SQL-based tools and Business Intelligence (BI) platforms to drive strategic decision-making.

• Proven track record of leading high-stakes, multi-quarter initiatives involving diverse cross-functional teams such as Engineering, Product, and Sales.

• Exceptional ability to synthesize complex technical concepts into clear, actionable business strategies for non-technical executive audiences.

Nice to Have: 

• Familiarity with Databricks tools, especially for extract/transform/load functions
• Experience working on Support Operations for SaaS based companies.
• Familiarity with tools like Salesforce, Zendesk, Jira, Looker/Tableau, and operational workflows

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About Databricks

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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

About the Role

Databricks is seeking a Senior Staff Product Operations Manager to serve as the chief architect of our internal operational ecosystem. This is a high-leverage leadership role embedded within Engineering, designed to orchestrate the complex intersection of technical innovation, product lifecycle maturity, and global Go-to-Market (GTM) acceleration.

In this capacity, you will move beyond the management of existing processes to lead the creation of a formal Operational Association. You will be responsible for designing the high-fidelity frameworks that allow our engineering organization to remain agile while ensuring that every product investment is data-driven, transparent, and rigorously aligned with our long-term commercial strategy. This role is purpose-built for a strategic thinker who excels at navigating the "gray space" between a deep technical roadmap and the sophisticated financial requirements of a global enterprise platform.

Impact

• Operational Orchestration: Define and govern the strategic engagement model between Engineering, Product, and GTM, ensuring that product lifecycle milestones are seamlessly integrated with field readiness and revenue velocity.

• Investment Intelligence: Act as a critical advisor to executive leadership, applying a consultant’s rigor to evaluate business investments. You will analyze resource allocation, unit economics, and the opportunity costs inherent in scaling a world-class Data and AI platform.

• Synthesis of Ambiguity: Transform disparate, multi-dimensional data signals from across the organization into coherent business insights. You will be the definitive voice in translating "engineering velocity" into "market impact," providing the clarity necessary for high-stakes decision-making.

• Systems Transformation: Lead the evolution of our product development lifecycle (PDLC). You will identify structural bottlenecks and design scalable solutions that enhance organizational throughput without sacrificing technical excellence.

• Strategic Connective Tissue: Serve as the authoritative bridge between the "How" of technical execution and the "Why" of business value, ensuring a unified language of success across our most senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the connective tissue between Support, Product, Engineering, and Analytics to drive operational alignment, product readiness, and continuous improvement across support workflows.
• Lead and execute strategic initiatives to scale global Support operations, including coverage models, KPI frameworks, and support process enhancements.
• Translate operational pain points into product and tooling requirements—partnering with internal tools, engineering, and analytics teams to drive automation, triage efficiency, and AI assistant improvements.
• Build and maintain dashboards that measure support effectiveness, surface product-driven case trends, and track customer experience across support channels.
• Support quarterly and annual planning cycles, including headcount, capacity modeling, and budget alignment in partnership with Finance and Workforce Management.
• Influence senior stakeholders by turning support and operational insights into clear, data-driven narratives that inform product and business decisions.

What We Look For: 

• Professional Experience: Minimum of 9 years of professional experience in Management Consulting, Product Strategy, Technical Program Management, or Operations within the technology sector.

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical, mathematical, or analytical field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Economics). An MBA is highly preferred.

• Demonstrated experience in designing and scaling operational frameworks or internal software systems within a high-growth SaaS or enterprise technology environment.

• Expert-level ability to navigate large, complex datasets using SQL-based tools and Business Intelligence (BI) platforms to drive strategic decision-making.

• Proven track record of leading high-stakes, multi-quarter initiatives involving diverse cross-functional teams such as Engineering, Product, and Sales.

• Exceptional ability to synthesize complex technical concepts into clear, actionable business strategies for non-technical executive audiences.

Nice to Have: 

• Familiarity with Databricks tools, especially for extract/transform/load functions
• Experience working on Support Operations for SaaS based companies.
• Familiarity with tools like Salesforce, Zendesk, Jira, Looker/Tableau, and operational workflows

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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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

As a Staff Software Engineer working on the Data Platform team, you will leverage bleeding-edge AI developer tools and techniques to help build the Data Intelligence Platform for Databricks that will allow us to automate decision-making across the entire company. You will achieve this in collaboration with Databricks Product Teams, Data Science, and many more. You will define the future of a variety of tools spanning logging, orchestration, data transformation, metric store, governance platforms, and data consumption layers, just to name a few.

The impact you will have:

• Design and run the cross-company Data Intelligence Platform, which contains every business and product metric used to run Databricks. You’ll play a key role in developing the right balance of data protection and ease of shareability for the Data Intelligence Platform as we transition to a public company.
• Develop tooling and infrastructure to efficiently manage and run Databricks on Databricks at scale, across multiple clouds, geographies, and deployment types. This includes CI/CD processes, test frameworks for pipelines and data quality, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Partner with our engineering teams to provide leadership in developing the long-term vision and requirements for the Databricks product.
• Build reliable data pipelines and solve data problems using Databricks, our partner’s products, and other OSS tools. Provide early feedback on the design and operations of these products.
• Represent Databricks at academic and industrial conferences & events.

What we look for:

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of industry experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• 4+ years of experience providing technical leadership on planet-scale production data systems 
• Experience leading architecture efforts for performance-sensitive systems (e.g., latency-critical services, multi-tenant platforms, large-scale indexing pipelines).
• Strong communication skills and the ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
• A strategic mindset with the ability to align engineering execution with longer-term product and company goals.
• Passion for mentoring and developing other engineers.

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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.

What You’ll Do

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:

Your role will be crucial in:

• 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.

What we look for:

• 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.

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Companies are investing billions of dollars into developing and deploying AI and the data platforms that enable it. But do they know what is happening? 

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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Customer Foresight Team, you'll lead the development of products that customers use to get insights on their AI and data workloads, optimize their performance, and lower costs. You will build data infrastructure that processes billions of entries daily, deploy to over 65 cloud regions worldwide, and enable some of the world's biggest companies to conduct their DevOps, FinOps, SecOps and AIOps jobs.

This role requires leading the technical development of product milestones from refinement of requirements, through execution, operation, and iterating with the broader product development team and partner teams to ensure product success.

The impact you will have:

• Develop systems that make it simple for customers to answer questions about their Databricks environment by providing a reliable and timely interface for observability
• Make it easy for frameworks teams across Databricks to publish their data to customers
• Effectively lead large milestones from the observability roadmap, contribute to the long-term vision and requirements development for Databricks products
• Mentor other engineers towards contributing to the product and their career growth
• Optimize the scalability and cost of large data pipelines towards reducing costs for customers and opening up new product opportunities
• Drive integration with popular tools and services in the broader data warehousing ecosystem

What we look for:

• 6+ years of production level experience in one of: Java, Scala, Python, C++, or similar language
• Experience with cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes
• Proven track record in architecting, developing, deploying, and operating components of large scale distributed systems
• Strong software engineering maturity: security, correctness, engineering excellence, operational excellence
• Platform mindset: effective building platforms for other software teams, iterating quickly to reduce friction to adoption, advocating for platform use
• Cross-functional skills: we have platform customers internal at Databricks as well as external customers, which requires strong cross-functional skills

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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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started in Bengaluru , India ! As a software engineer with a backend focus, you will work with your team to build infrastructure for the Databricks platform at scale.

The impact you'll have:

Our backend teams cover a diverse range of domains, from core compute fabric resource management to service platforms and infrastructure. For example, you might work on challenges such as:

• Supporting Databricks' growth by building foundational infrastructure platforms that enable seamless operation across numerous geographic regions and cloud providers.
• Implementing cloud-agnostic infrastructure abstractions to help Databricks engineers more efficiently manage and operate their services.
• Develop tools and processes that drive engineering efficiency at Databricks. We enhance the developer experience for Databricks engineers across various areas, including programming languages, linters, static analysis, IDEs, remote development environments, automated release pipelines, and test automation frameworks. Our current focus is on optimizing the Rust development experience across the organization.

What we look for:

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
• 6+ years of production level experience in one of: Python, Java, Scala, C++, or similar language.
• Experience developing large-scale distributed systems from scratch
• Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Java, Scala, or Go.
• Hands-on experience in developing and operating backend systems.
• Ability to contribute effectively throughout all project phases, from initial design and development to implementation and ongoing operations, with guidance from senior team members.

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At Databricks, we are passionate about 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 to their own missions. Our engineering teams build technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We always push the boundaries of data and AI technology, while simultaneously operating with the resilience, security and scale that is important to making customers successful on our platform.

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 observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above.

As a Senior Software Engineer working on the Data Platform team you will help build the Data Intelligence Platform for Databricks that will allow us to automate decision-making across the entire company. You will achieve this in collaboration with Databricks Product Teams, Data Science, Applied AI and many more. You will develop a variety of tools spanning logging, orchestration, data transformation, metric store, governance platforms, data consumption layers etc. You will do this using the latest, bleeding-edge Databricks product and other tools in the data ecosystem - the team also functions as a large, production, in-house customer that dog foods Databricks and guides the future direction of the product.

The impact you will have:

• Design and run the Databricks metrics store that enables all business units and engineering teams to bring their detailed metrics into a common platform for sharing and aggregation, with high quality, introspection ability and query performance.
• Design and run the cross-company Data Intelligence Platform, which contains every business and product metric used to run Databricks. You’ll play a key role in developing the right balance of data protections and ease of shareability for the Data Intelligence Platform as we transition to a public company.
• Develop tooling and infrastructure to efficiently manage and run Databricks on Databricks at scale, across multiple clouds, geographies and deployment types. This includes CI/CD processes, test frameworks for pipelines and data quality, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Design the base ETL framework used by all pipelines developed at the company.
• Partner with our engineering teams to provide leadership in developing the long-term vision and requirements for the Databricks product.
• Build reliable data pipelines and solve data problems using Databricks, our partner’s products and other OSS tools. Provide early feedback on the design and operations of these products.
• Establish conventions and create new APIs for telemetry, debug, feature and audit event log data, and evolve them as the product and underlying services change.
• Represent Databricks at academic and industrial conferences & events.

What we look for:

• 6+ years of industry experience 
• 4+ years of experience providing technical leadership on large projects similar to the ones described above - ETL frameworks, metrics stores, infrastructure management, data security.
• Experience building, shipping and operating reliable multi-geo data pipelines at scale.
• Experience working with and operating workflow or orchestration frameworks, including open source tools like Airflow and DBT or commercial enterprise tools.
• Experience with large-scale messaging systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ or commercial systems.
• Excellent cross-functional and communication skills, consensus builder.
• Passion for data infrastructure and for enabling others by making their data easier to access.

Databricks is on a mission to simplify and democratize data and AI — 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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

As a Fullstack software engineer, you will work with your team and product management to make insights from data simple. We are looking for engineers that are customer obsessed, who can take on the full scope of the product and user experience beyond the technical implementation. You'll set the foundation for how we build robust, scalable and delightful products.

Vancouver will be the newest R&D center for Databricks, expanding our presence in the Pacific Northwest. We are actively hiring world-class engineers to join us on our mission to democratize data + AI.  

We envision the Vancouver site becoming a key driver of product innovation at Databricks. To start, we’re bringing a few strategic areas to the Vancouver site and we have several open roles across the teams below, including:

• Log Analytics - Our customers increasingly use Databricks to analyze petabyte-scale logs in real time. This creates new challenges across the entire data processing pipeline, including ingestion, indexing, processing, and the user experience itself.
• AI/BI - AI/BI is redefining Business Intelligence for the AI age. We launched this product last summer and have already seen tremendous adoption (98.7% of our data warehousing customers are already using AI/BI!). From rich dashboarding and advanced visualizations to powerful talk-to-your-data solutions, the products we are building involve exciting technical challenges across the entire stack. 
• Unity Catalog Business Semantics - Context is everything for AI. For enterprise data, that context needs to be governed and managed, which is what Unity Catalog Business Semantics offers. We recently launched our first Semantics modelling capability, Unity Catalog Metrics, this past Data + AI Summit but we have a lot more in store. Engineers on this team work at the intersection of large scale distributed systems, data modeling, governance, and AI enablement.
• Databricks Apps - Databricks Apps is one of the fastest growing products at Databricks, used by more than 2,500 customers who have created more than 20,000 apps — and it was only GA’ed this past June. The Apps team is one of the few teams that are exposed to low-level platform components (k8s, networking), owns fundamental tech (apps runtime and proxy), and is heavily investing in app builder AI agents.

What we look for:

• 5+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Passion for user experience and design and a deep understanding of front-end architecture.
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Motivated by delivering customer value.
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or VueJs/Ember).
• 5+ years of experience with server-side web technologies (eg: Node.js, Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++,Go).
• Good knowledge of SQL.
• Experience with cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes.
• Experience developing large-scale distributed systems.

At Databricks, we’re passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world’s toughest problems — from accelerating medical breakthroughs to building the next generation of intelligent products. We do this by creating the world’s best Data Intelligence Platform, empowering customers to turn massive data into deep, actionable insights.

Founded by engineers and driven by innovation, we’re obsessed with designing intuitive, high-performance user experiences that make complex data exploration simple and approachable.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer focused on Dashboards, you’ll build intuitive and scalable end-to-end experiences that help users create, explore, and share insights from data. You’ll work across the frontend, partnering with designers, product managers, and engineers to develop the next generation of dashboards, interactivity, and analytical workflows within Databricks.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build intuitive, high-performance experiences for creating and editing dashboards, as well as for authoring the data behind them, including SQL datasets, custom calculations, and semantic modeling.
• Partner closely with design and product to translate complex analytical concepts into polished, intuitive, and efficient dashboard experiences.
• Drive innovation in how Databricks users interact with data, enabling seamless and responsive exploration at scale.
• Own frontend development for core dashboard workflows, with a focus on usability, performance, accessibility, and reliability.
• Help shape the architecture, abstractions, and platform foundations that support a broad range of dashboarding and analytical use cases.
• Collaborate with backend engineers and adjacent teams to define APIs, data models, and contracts that power interactive and scalable dashboard experiences.

What We Look For

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong experience building both frontend and backend systems.
• Expertise in modern frontend development with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and React, or similar frameworks.
• Deep understanding of UX principles, accessibility, and responsive design for data-heavy interfaces.
• Experience designing scalable systems and abstractions that support interactive, high-performance product experiences.
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and deliver impactful user-facing features.
• Experience building dashboards, analytics, data exploration, authoring tools, or business intelligence products is a plus.
• Familiarity with SQL authoring, custom calculations, semantic modeling, or related analytical workflows is a plus.
• Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or Kubernetes is preferred.

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Platform & Product Experiences | Shape How Databricks Executes at Scale

At Databricks, Staff TPMs don’t just run programs — they define how the company executes at scale. This role sits at the center of our highest-priority platform and product investments, partnering across engineering, product, and go-to-market teams to bring foundational capabilities to market globally.

You will lead complex, high-visibility programs where the path isn’t fully defined, align senior stakeholders, and build the operating models that scale execution across the company.

The Impact You’ll Make

You will own delivery of some of Databricks’ most important initiatives and programs that reach tens of thousands of enterprise customers worldwide. You will influence roadmap decisions, drive execution across organizations, and ensure launches translate into real customer adoption and business impact.

Examples of programs you may lead include:

• Driving the evolution and adoption of Unity Catalog as the foundation for data governance across the platform
• Scaling core platform experiences that define how customers interact with Databricks (e.g., workspace, identity, access, and cross-product workflows)
• Leading cross-functional initiatives that unify product experiences across data, AI, and governance capabilities

What You’ll Own

• End-to-End Program Leadership: Own complex, cross-functional programs from initial scoping through launch and adoption. Define program structure, drive execution, and hold teams accountable to clear outcomes.
• Cross-Organizational Alignment: Align engineering, product, design, field, legal, and marketing around a shared plan. Manage dependencies, resolve conflicts, and keep execution on track.
• Product Launch & Enterprise Adoption: Partner with field teams, solutions architects, and customer success to drive successful launches. Build early access programs, capture customer feedback, and translate it into execution priorities.
• Operational Excellence: Identify where the organization is losing speed, design scalable processes, and drive adoption across teams. Build systems that outlast individual programs.
• Executive Communication: Own communication with senior leadership. Provide clear updates, highlight risks, and enable fast, well-informed decision-making.
• Data-Driven Execution: Define success metrics upfront. Track progress rigorously and use data to guide decisions and demonstrate impact.

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years leading large-scale, cross-functional programs in enterprise software or B2B technology
• Proven experience delivering end-to-end product launches across multiple geographies and functions
• Demonstrated ability to bring structure to ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Experience influencing roadmap and prioritization, not just delivery
• Credibility with both engineers and executives; strong communication skills with VP and C-level stakeholders
• Track record of building scalable processes and operating models
• Strong instincts for risk management, escalation, and stakeholder alignment
• Experience defining and tracking success metrics; familiarity with SQL or dashboards is a plus
• Experience operating with high autonomy and ownership in ambiguous, high-stakes environments

Preferred

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Background in data platforms, governance systems, or developer-facing products
• Familiarity with Databricks or similar large-scale data ecosystems
• Experience scaling both 0→1 programs and mature systems
• Advanced degree in a technical field

Why This Role is Unique

This role sits at the center of Databricks’ core platform investments, with direct access to senior leadership and the opportunity to shape how the company executes. You will work on high-impact programs, influence key decisions, and build systems that scale across the organization. 

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision)
• 401(k) plan
• Equity awards
• Flexible time off
• Paid parental leave and family planning support
• Gym reimbursement
• Annual personal development fund
• Work headphones reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Business travel accident insurance
• Mental wellness resources

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About Databricks

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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

The Role

At Databricks, we don’t just use the cloud; we are "cloud maximalists." Unlike most companies that treat multi-cloud as a backup strategy, we run our platform across every region of every major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, and GCP) simultaneously. This creates a massive, high-consequence engineering surface area that requires a unique breed of Production Engineer.

In this role, you won’t just run our cloud environments; you will own and evolve the secure infrastructure, access patterns, and guardrails that keep Databricks’ global platform safe and compliant in production. You will be responsible for the "sovereign layer" of our infrastructure, ensuring that our Data Intelligence Platform operates with 100% reliability and security in highly regulated, air-gapped, and sovereign environments. If you are an engineer who views infrastructure as a software problem and thrives on the complexity of global-scale networking, IAM, and automation, this is your team.

The Impact You’ll Have

Security-Focused Cloud Operations

• Design, automate, and operate the IAM, account/subscription, and project lifecycle across AWS, Azure, and GCP, enforcing least-privilege and standardized access patterns at scale.
• Review, implement, and continuously improve cloud identity and access policies (IAM, Okta, Opal) to align with Databricks security standards and audit requirements.

Production Engineering & Automation

• Build and maintain reliable, observable automation and tooling to apply cloud changes (roles, policies, accounts, networking) safely and repeatedly.
• Treat operational and security issues as software problems: eliminate toil, drive root-cause analysis, and codify fixes into infrastructure and tooling.

Security Data Pipelines & Compliance

• Own and improve security and audit logging data pipelines from cloud providers into our internal systems, ensuring timely, accurate data for detection, investigations, and audits.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, and Audit teams to provide evidence, clarifications, and policy updates that keep our environments aligned with evolving standards.

Regulated & Specialized Environments

• Operate and improve specialized, highly regulated environments (e.g., FedRAMP / GovCloud) including release management, patching cadences, and supporting secure access workflows (e.g., SAW).
• Ensure high availability and resiliency for critical security and access infrastructure across these environments.

On-Call & Incident Response

• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation for high-severity incidents impacting cloud accounts, IAM, or security data pipelines.
• Act as a key partner to product engineering, security engineering, and field teams during incidents to restore service and harden systems for the future.

What We Look For

• Required: Candidates must be eligible for a Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance.
• Nice to have: Possession of a current polygraph (Counterintelligence or Full Scope) is highly desired and considered a significant plus.

• Education- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in production engineering, SRE, security engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Expertise
  • Deep hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) in areas such as IAM, networking, accounts/subscriptions/projects, and audit logging.
  • Strong background in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) and CI/CD for infrastructure changes.
• Security & Compliance Mindset
  • Proven experience working in or with security-sensitive or regulated environments (e.g., SOC2, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, financial services, public sector) and translating requirements into concrete technical controls.
  • Familiarity with access review processes, policy baselines, and audit evidence for cloud environment.
• Operational Excellence
  • Demonstrated success running high-availability, security-critical services, including on-call responsibilities and incident management.
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across distributed systems, with the ability to navigate ambiguous issues spanning multiple teams and platforms.  

Bonus

• Experience with Okta, Opal, or similar identity/access tooling.
• Background operating secure admin workstations (SAW) or comparable hardened access patterns.
• Experience migrating cloud accounts or subscriptions during M&A or large-scale reorganizations.

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About Databricks

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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

The Role
At Databricks, we don’t just build software for the cloud; we are "cloud maximalists." We run our platform across every region of every major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, and GCP) simultaneously, creating a technical surface area that is unique in the industry. As a Software Engineer on our Public Sector team, you will be responsible for the core backend engineering that allows our Data Intelligence Platform for the Public Sector to operate at massive scale within sovereign and air-gapped cloud environments.

We are looking for world-class Software Engineers to join our core Backend Engineering teams. You will design, build, and scale the distributed systems that power one of the largest data and AI infrastructures in the world. You will tackle high-scale infrastructure challenges where "zero-waste" compute efficiency and 100% system resilience are mandatory. From optimizing massive data storage layers to architecting low-latency microservices that must function in disconnected regions, you will own the end-to-end lifecycle of mission-critical code.

The Impact You’ll Have

• Architect Scalable Systems: Design and implement highly available backend services using Scala, Java, Go, C++/C or similar.
• Distributed Systems Engineering: Design and implement highly scalable backend services in Java, Scala, or Go that power our Data Intelligence Platform across sovereign and air-gapped clouds.
• Infrastructure at Scale: Solve complex architectural trade-offs around concurrency, storage, and networking to ensure the platform remains resilient in high-consequence public sector environments.
• Performance Optimization: Drive "zero-waste" compute initiatives, optimizing our engine and services to perform in resource-constrained or specialized regions (e.g., GovCloud).
• Security & Reliability: Partner with Production Engineering to ensure all backend services meet the highest security standards and compliance guardrails while maintaining high availability.

What We Look For

• Required: Candidates must be eligible for a Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance.
  • Nice to have: Possession of a current polygraph (Counterintelligence or Full Scope) is highly desired and considered a significant plus.
• Technical Breadth: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience: 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Systems Expertise: Deep understanding of Distributed Systems, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Language Proficiency: Strong production-level experience in at least one of: Java, Scala, Go, or C++.
• Cloud Experience: Experience building and deploying large-scale SaaS or cloud-native applications.

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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

As one of the first engineers in the NYC Engineering office, you’ll have the opportunity to be part of a small, nimble team that’s innovating to build new products from the ground up. Our goal is to leverage the power of Databricks in data & AI to deliver vertical AI applications for both technical and business users. This will be a true 0-to-1 environment, combining the excitement of a startup with the resources of a tech leader like Databricks.   

The impact you'll have:

• Create novel, never-seen-before interfaces for GenAI agents that manage complex workflows while keeping the human in the loop through inspectability and transparency
• Partner closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build intuitive, scalable, and extensible solutions that drive user & business growth
• Lead by example with hands-on full-stack software development to create dynamic, user-centric experiences
• Enable mechanisms that can drive product-led growth, through seamless onboarding and sharing capabilities
• Direct the future of intuitive agentic applications at Databricks, in collaboration with cross-functional teams of innovative software engineers, product managers, and designers
• Establish best practices within the team & Databricks more widely for building valuable, AI products

What we look for:

• 10+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Demonstrated product mindset with the ability to translate ambiguous customer problems into scrappy MVPs and iterate quickly based on data and user feedback.
• You care that AI features feel intuitive, trustworthy, and helpful, not just bolted on to an existing app
• High ownership and bias for action in 0→1 environments: you are comfortable making pragmatic trade-offs, operating with incomplete information, and driving projects from idea through launch and adoption.
• Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and design teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives.  
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or VueJs/Ember)
• 10+ years of experience with server-side web technologies (eg: Node.js, Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++,Go)
• Proven experience building and shipping end-to-end generative AI products, ideally with a significant UI/UX component
• Experience in developing deep product and business knowledge to connect abstract modeling and analysis tasks with business value

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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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

As one of the first engineers in the NYC Engineering office, you’ll have the opportunity to be part of a small, nimble team that’s innovating to build new products from the ground up. Our goal is to leverage the power of Databricks in data & AI to deliver vertical AI applications for both technical and business users. This will be a true 0-to-1 environment, combining the excitement of a startup with the resources of a tech leader like Databricks.   

The impact you'll have:

• Create novel, never-seen-before interfaces for GenAI agents that manage complex workflows while keeping the human in the loop through inspectability and transparency
• Partner closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build intuitive, scalable, and extensible solutions that drive user & business growth
• Lead by example with hands-on full-stack software development to create dynamic, user-centric experiences
• Enable mechanisms that can drive product-led growth, through seamless onboarding and sharing capabilities
• Direct the future of intuitive agentic applications at Databricks, in collaboration with cross-functional teams of innovative software engineers, product managers, and designers
• Define and drive the strategy for building end-to-end AI feature development by designing, building, and maintaining systems that are scalable, reliable, and performant.

What we look for:

• 10+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Demonstrated product mindset with the ability to translate ambiguous customer problems into scrappy MVPs and iterate quickly based on data and user feedback.
• You care that AI features feel intuitive, trustworthy, and helpful, not just bolted on to an existing app
• High ownership and bias for action in 0→1 environments: you are comfortable making pragmatic trade-offs, operating with incomplete information, and driving projects from idea through launch and adoption.
• Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and design teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives.  
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or VueJs/Ember)
• 10+ years of experience with server-side web technologies (eg: Node.js, Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++,Go)
• Proven experience building and shipping end-to-end generative AI products, ideally with a significant UI/UX component
• Proven experience building and shipping end-to-end generative AI products
• Deep familiarity with LLMs and generative AI, including hands-on experience with techniques like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt design, evaluation, and monitoring AI quality and safety in production.

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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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. Databricks Mosaic AI offers a unique data-centric approach to building enterprise-quality, Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions, enabling organizations to securely and cost-effectively own and host ML and Generative AI models, augmented or trained with their enterprise data. And we're only getting started in Bengaluru , India - across 10 new teams that we're setting up from scratch !

As a Staff Software Engineer at Databricks India, you can get to work across : 

- Backend 

- DDS (Distributed Data Systems)

- Full Stack

The impact you'll have:

1. Our Backend teams span many domains across our essential service platforms. For instance, you might work on challenges such as:

• Problems that span from product to infrastructure including: distributed systems, at-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration, and developer experience.
• Deliver reliable and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends, e.g., AWS S3, Azure Blob Store.
• Build reliable, scalable services, e.g. Scala, Kubernetes, and data pipelines, e.g. Apache Spark™, Databricks, to power the pricing infrastructure that serves millions of cluster-hours per day and develop product features that empower customers to easily view and control platform usage.

2. Our DDS team spans across:

• Apache Spark™
• Data Plane Storage
• Delta Lake
• Delta Pipelines
• Performance Engineering

3. As a Full Stack software engineer, you will work closely with your team and product management to bring that delight through great user experience.

What we look for:

• 12+ years of production level experience in one of: Python, Java, Scala, C++, or similar language.
• BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
• Experience developing large-scale distributed systems from scratch
• Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures.

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The Applied AI team at Databricks sits at the forefront of advancing AI/ML-powered products. Databricks’ customers are continuously creating new assets (tables, notebooks, dashboards, datarooms, pipelines, sql queries, ml models etc.) on the platform. Finding an asset is a critical user journey for Databricks’ customers which helps them accomplish their tasks. 

As our Search product continues to evolve, we are seeking multiple  ML Engineers from junior levels to more senior levels to drive enhancements to our Search Quality. In 2026, we will focus on enhancing search ranking, improving query understanding, building robust evals and growing the coverage of assets to enable seamless search at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the development and deployment of ML based search and discovery relevance models and systems integrated with Databricks' products and services. 
• Design and implement automated ML and NLP pipelines for data preprocessing, query understanding and rewrite, ranking and retrieval, and model evaluation, enabling rapid experimentation and iteration. 
• Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to drive technology-first initiatives that enable novel business strategies and product roadmaps for the search and discovery experience. 
• Contribute to building a robust framework for evaluating search ranking improvements - both offline and online.

What We’re Looking For

• BS+ (M.S. or PhD preferred) in Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years experience developing search relevance systems at scale in production or in high-impact research environments.
• Experience applying LLM to search relevance
• Experience in one or more of the following:  
• Query understanding
• NLP
• Text mining
• Recommendations
• Personalization
• Discovery
• Conversational AI 
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals.
• Contributions to well-used open-source projects. 

Why Join Us?
At Databricks, we are building state-of-the-art AI solutions that redefine how users interact with data and our products. You’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of AI-driven products at Databricks, work with cutting-edge models, and collaborate with a world-class team of AI and ML experts.

If you're excited about pushing the boundaries of AI in real-world applications, we’d love to hear from you!

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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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer-obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. We're only getting started in Bengaluru, India  - and are currently in the process of setting up 10 new teams from scratch! 

Our engineering teams build technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We always push the boundaries of data and AI technology, while simultaneously operating with the security and scale that is important to making customers successful on our platform.

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 observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above.

As a software engineer in the Observability team, you will develop observability solutions that provide insights into the health and performance of our products and infrastructure.

The impact you'll have:

• Establish standards for logging, metrics, and tracing.
• You will collaborate with different teams to identify metrics that allow engineers to observe how well the system and different subcomponents are performing.
• You will build tooling and infrastructure to allow components to efficiently emit, aggregate, and store metrics that can be displayed on dashboards and used for alerting.
• Ensure the scalability, performance, and reliability of systems by contributing to and executing the technical roadmap.
• Participate in on-call rotations and reduce incident response times to maintain operational excellence.
• Optimize platform and infrastructure by analyzing system expenses, enhancing visibility, promoting mindful usage, enforcing retention policies, streamlining queries, and right-sizing resources to reduce observability costs.

What we look for:

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.
• 7+ years of production-level experience in one of: Python, Java, Scala, C++, or similar languages.
• Experience in software development, in large-scale distributed systems
• Familiarity with metrics collection, health monitoring, and observability tools

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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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. 

Networking Infrastructure is a core part of the platform that powers all our data and AI products. The platform also powers key enterprise security features used by customers across all our products to build connectivity solutions to cloud resources and prevent data exfiltration. And we're setting up the team from scratch in Bengaluru , India.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineers with a networking background to join the Networking Infrastructure team. As one of the seed members of the Bangalore site, you will be focussing on building new backend connectivity services that powers millions of VMs running on Databricks. You will also be leading the design and development of new services that powers the connectivity between our control plane and compute plane. This new platform enables Databricks to increase scalability of our compute plane while also efficiently use cloud resources. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, operations, and other engineering teams, to ensure the delivery of robust, scalable, and efficient networking systems. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about solving novel multi-cloud and distributed systems challenges.

What we look for:

• 6+ years of production level experience in one of: Python, Java, Scala, C++, or similar language
• 3+ years of experience developing large-scale distributed systems from scratch
• Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures.

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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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. Databricks Mosaic AI offers a unique data-centric approach to building enterprise-quality, Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions, enabling organizations to securely and cost-effectively own and host ML and Generative AI models, augmented or trained with their enterprise data. And we're only getting started in Bengaluru , India  - and currently in the process of setting up 14 new teams from scratch ! 

As a Senior Software Engineer at Databricks India, you can get to work across  : 

- Backend 

- DDS (Distributed Data Systems)

- Full Stack

The impact you'll have:

1. Our Backend teams span many domains across our essential service platforms. For instance, you might work on challenges such as:

• Problems that span from product to infrastructure including: distributed systems, at-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration, and developer experience.
• Deliver reliable and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends, e.g., AWS S3, Azure Blob Store.
• Build reliable, scalable services, e.g. Scala, Kubernetes, and data pipelines, e.g. Apache Spark™, Databricks, to power the pricing infrastructure that serves millions of cluster-hours per day and develop product features that empower customers to easily view and control platform usage.

2. Our DDS team spans across:

• Apache Spark™
• Data Plane Storage
• Delta Lake
• Delta Pipelines
• Performance Engineering

3. As a Full Stack software engineer, you will work closely with your team and product management to bring that delight through great user experience.

What we look for:

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
• 7+ years of production level experience in one of: Python, Java, Scala, C++, or similar language.
• Experience developing large-scale distributed systems from scratch
• Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures.

(P-1174)

We are hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Databricks' Engineering team reporting to an Engineering Leader. You will be part of the Databricks engineering organization, working with teams that develop Databricks products and features for thousands of enterprises worldwide.

Key Characteristics

As an executive engineering individual contributor at Databricks, you will have full ownership of the product or infrastructure direction in a major area, driving it from initial development to scalable solutions with clear business impact. You will serve as a force multiplier by elevating stability, reliability, and organizational processes, while bringing deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems. You will mentor senior engineers, contribute to recruiting, and lead high-impact company projects, often tackling complex problems beyond their comfort zone. 

Job Description

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 to their own missions.

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 regularly observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above.

The Impact you will have:

• 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
• 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.
• A strong influencer or driver in the organization’s roadmap and direction.
• Lead a TLG or similar review committee, or initiate and sustain an org/eng-wide initiative driven by engineering needs.
• Break down complex problems quickly into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, and de-risk (through prototyping/validation).
• Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.

What we look for:

• 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.

P-375

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 can use deep data insights to improve their business.

Ingesting data into the Lakehouse is a strategic area of investment for Databricks and a key enabler for Data and AI workflows. Lakeflow Connect is looking to solve this problem by providing ready-to-use, point-and-click connectors for a wide variety of sources, including enterprise applications (like Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow, SharePoint), databases (e.g., SQL Server), cloud storage, message queues, and local files.

In addition to being an important part of Lakeflow and Data Engineering, Connect is also a key platform capability. Every surface in Databricks (Dashboards, Notebooks, SQL, AI) requires ingestion capabilities and the lead for this role will need to work closely with other products to embed Connect into these surfaces.

We are looking for engineers with experience in core Database internals to join our Lakeflow Connect team. A key part of Connect is to extract data from OLTP systems while imposing minimal load on production systems. To do this efficiently we are building systems that use techniques such as incremental data capture, log parsing, etc. We are looking for engineers who continue to be hands on and are looking to make a large impact on an important problem for the company.

The Impact you will have:

• 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
• 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.
• A strong influencer or driver in the organization’s roadmap and direction.
• Lead a TLG or similar review committee, or initiate and sustain an org/eng-wide initiative driven by engineering needs.
• Break down complex problems quickly into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, and de-risk (through prototyping/validation).
• Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.

What we look for:

• 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in areas like Database replication, backup, transaction recovery at one of the major database vendors (Microsoft SQL Server , Oracle, IBM etc).
• 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.

P-1700

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 Intelligence Platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers and customer-obsessed, we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

Lakebase enables teams to deliver applications faster with an optimized database developer experience, integration with the lakehouse, and simplified operations. Lakebase provides a managed Postgres transactional layer for application state and workloads that combine operational data, analytics, and AI.

We are looking for a Staff Database Engineer to help build the Lakebase product, advising software engineering teams on functional and non-functional feature designs and working with product teams to validate that designs satisfy customer requirements. You will design operational tools to simplify troubleshooting and enterprise extensions for Lakebase to meet customer security and observability requirements. You will assist field engineers with complex and demanding POC’s and advise customers and field engineers on best practices for application and database design to maximize performance. 

What we look for:

• A passion for database systems and application performance tuning
• Experience building and operating high-volume OLTP systems including root cause analysis for incidents
• Experience building tools to automate database management, monitoring, and operations
• Experience with query tuning in Postgres (schema design, indexes, hints, vacuum, etc)
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact
• 5+ years of experience working with Postgres and other database systems

P-1700

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 Intelligence Platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers and customer-obsessed, we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

Lakebase enables teams to deliver applications faster with an optimized database developer experience, integration with the lakehouse, and simplified operations. Lakebase provides a managed Postgres transactional layer for application state and workloads that combine operational data, analytics, and AI.

We are looking for a Staff Database Engineer to help build the Lakebase product, advising software engineering teams on functional and non-functional feature designs and working with product teams to validate that designs satisfy customer requirements. You will design operational tools to simplify troubleshooting and enterprise extensions for Lakebase to meet customer security and observability requirements. You will assist field engineers with complex and demanding POC’s and advise customers and field engineers on best practices for application and database design to maximize performance. 

What we look for:

• A passion for database systems and application performance tuning
• Experience building and operating high-volume OLTP systems including root cause analysis for incidents
• Experience building tools to automate database management, monitoring, and operations
• Experience with query tuning in Postgres (schema design, indexes, hints, vacuum, etc)
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact
• 5+ years of experience working with Postgres and other database systems

P-1980

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 Intelligence Platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

As a founding engineer in the NYC Engineering office, you’ll have the opportunity to be part of a small, nimble team that’s innovating to build new products from the ground up. Our goal is to leverage the power of Databricks in data & AI to deliver vertical AI applications for both technical and business users. This will be a true 0-to-1 environment, combining the excitement of a startup with the resources of a tech leader like Databricks.   

The key challenge you’ll be dealing with is leveraging the latest UX/UI technologies to create simple but powerful interfaces of very complex data and workflows. Your team is taking a UI-first and GenAI-first approach to building products. For example, you may be working in challenges such as:

• Create interfaces for GenAI agents that generate complex workflows while keeping the human in the loop through inspectability and transparency
• Create complex visualizations such as data pipelines, data mappings, customer journey flows, identity graphs, etc
• Enable mechanisms that can drive product-led growth, through seamless onboarding and sharing capabilities
• An interactive environment for collaborative data projects at massive scale with an easy path to production

What we look for:

• 10+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Passion for user experience and design and a deep understanding of front-end architecture
• High velocity focus, able to ship high quality code frequently and with speed 
• Experience building complex workflows and complex analytics visualizations
• Motivated by delivering customer value
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or VueJs/Ember)
• 10+ years of experience with server-side web technologies (eg: Node.js, Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++,Go)
• Good knowledge of SQL

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The Applied AI team at Databricks sits at the forefront of advancing GenAI-powered products. Over the past years, we’ve launched Databricks Assistant, AI/BI Genie, and Agent Bricks working with product teams, and made significant strides in LLM quality for these products. These products are used by 100s of thousands of Databricks users every day. We are tackling challenging problems like code suggestion, error detection and correction, text-to-sql generation, automatic pipeline generation, knowledge QA and many others.

As our GenAI products continue to evolve, we are seeking multiple  GenAI Engineers from junior levels to more senior levels to drive the next phase of development. In 2025, we will focus on enhancing LLM quality, expanding GenAI capabilities across Databricks products, and strengthening our platform architecture to enable seamless AI interactions at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape the direction of our applied AI areas and intelligence features in our products. Drive the development and deployment of state-of-the-art AI models and systems that directly impact the capabilities and performance of Databricks' products and services (e.g., Databricks Assistant and AI/BI Genie).
• Develop novel data collection, fine-tuning, and LLM technologies that achieve optimal performance on specific tasks and domains.
• Design and implement ML pipelines for data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, hyperparameter tuning, and model evaluation, enabling rapid experimentation and iteration.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including AI researchers, ML engineers, and product teams, to deliver impactful AI solutions that enhance user productivity and satisfaction.
• Build scalable, reusable backend systems to support GenAI products across the company. Develop robust logging, telemetry, and evaluation harnesses to ensure reliable model performance.

What We’re Looking For

• 2-8 years of machine learning engineering experience in high-velocity, high-growth companies. Alternatively, a strong background in relevant ML research in academia will be considered as an equivalent qualification.
• Strong track record of working with language modeling technologies. This could include the following: Developing generative and embedding techniques, modern model architectures, fine tuning / pre-training datasets, and evaluation benchmarks.
• Proficiency in Python, TensorFlow/PyTorch, and scalable ML architectures.
• Ability to drive end-to-end model development, from research and prototyping to deployment and monitoring.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a passion for improving AI-driven user experiences.
• Strong coding and software engineering skills, and familiarity with software engineering principles around testing, code reviews and deployment.
• Experience with LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a bonus.

Why Join Us?
At Databricks, we are building state-of-the-art AI solutions that redefine how users interact with data and our products. You’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of AI-driven products at Databricks, work with cutting-edge models, and collaborate with a world-class team of AI and ML experts.

If you're excited about pushing the boundaries of AI in real-world applications, we’d love to hear from you!

Please note we are open to employees working from our Mountain View, CA office for this position. 

P-1299

Databricks is radically simplifying the entire data lifecycle, from ingestion to generative AI and everything in-between. We’re doing it cross-cloud with a unified platform, currently serving over 10k customers, processing exabytes of data/day on 15+ million VMs, and growing exponentially. 

To make it happen we’re building multi-cloud systems at every corner of the data ecosystem, from query engines, vector databases, training pipelines, and storage systems, down to the infrastructure that allows them to scale like auto-sharders, caches, and load balancers, just to name a few. We also build and support the tooling, languages, and stacks that bring it together. Basically, we do it all. 

The space we work in and the problems we solve are massive, complex, and very deep (our published work on Lakehouse, Delta lake, and Photon are a testament to that). We’re looking for practitioners who are eager to work with the best in industry to push the boundaries of what’s possible for our customers. If you’re truth seeking, data driven, and love to operate from first principles (head fake: our core values), then Databricks is the place for you.

As a part of the Database Engine team, there are opportunities to design and implement in many areas that leapfrog existing state-of-the-art systems:

• Query compilation & optimization
• Distributed query execution and scheduling
• Vectorized engine execution
• Data security
• Resource Management
• Transaction coordination
• Efficient storage structures (encoding, indexes)
• Automatic physical data optimization

What we look for:

• PhD in databases or systems
• A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, and/or performance optimization
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact

P-1492

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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started in Bengaluru , India ! As a software engineer with a backend focus, you will work with your team to build infrastructure for the Databricks platform at scale.

The Role : 

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer with a deep understanding of low-level systems to join our team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and optimizing application frameworks  that form the building blocks for all software development at Databricks. This is not a full-stack role; your expertise will be focused on the intricate details of system internals, performance, and efficiency.

What we look for : 

• Design, implement, and maintain core system infrastructure and low-level software components.
• Optimize system performance, reliability, and scalability through meticulous analysis and innovative solutions.
• Work with JVM internals, memory management, concurrency, and distributed systems.
• Collaborate with other senior engineers and architects to define technical strategies and roadmaps.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architectural decision-making.
• Troubleshoot complex system issues and provide effective resolutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of professional experience in software development.
• Deep understanding of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) internals, including garbage collection, JIT compilation, class loading, and memory model.
• Proficiency in at least one JVM language and extensive experience with its runtime environment.
• Strong programming skills in Scala/Java/Rust or other systems-level languages.
• Extensive experience with operating system concepts; including processes, threads, concurrency, scheduling, and I/O.
• Proven track record of building and optimizing high-performance, scalable, and reliable systems.
• Experience with distributed systems concepts and technologies.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities
• Experience with performance profiling and tuning tools.
• Contributions to open-source projects related to JVM or systems software.
• Experience with RPC frameworks.

If you are a systems-level expert with a passion for optimizing the core of technology and possess a deep understanding of JVM internals, we encourage you to apply and help us build the future.

P-1489

About Databricks

At Databricks, we are passionate about empowering data teams to tackle the world's most complex challenges — from bringing the next mode of transportation to reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We achieve this by building and operating the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, enabling our customers to leverage deep data insights and enhance their business.

The Role

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Staff Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Reliability to lead the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of our most critical Reliability initiatives across infrastructure and product engineering teams at Databricks. As Databricks scales to support thousands of customers and the world’s most data-intensive workloads, Reliability is foundational to our mission. In this role, you will lead cross-company programs that significantly enhance the reliability, performance, and operational excellence of our multi-cloud infrastructure.

This is a high-visibility, high-impact leadership role partnering closely with our most senior engineering leaders, including Reliability Program executive sponsors, senior TLs, and Engineering Managers to define Reliability strategy, set long-term goals, and execute multi-quarter programs to build the most reliable cloud platform on the planet to help our customers run their mission-critical workloads on. 

To be successful, you must possess a deep understanding of large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and engineering principles that drive operational excellence. You will leverage your background to anticipate risks, shape technical direction, and deliver complex programs across product, engineering, SRE, and cloud partner teams.

You will have the opportunity to:

Lead Reliability Strategy + Multi-Quarter Roadmaps

• Partner with senior engineering leadership to define the long-term Reliability roadmap, influence technical direction, and ensure alignment across teams.
• Ensure clarity and alignment on priorities across engineering teams, including Platform Engineering, Compute Fleet Management, SRE, Security, and Cloud Partnerships.

Drive Execution of Critical Reliability Programs

• Own program execution end-to-end: planning, risk management, dependency mapping, trade-off decisions, status reporting, and delivery.
• Identify gaps in process or architecture and work with TLs to proactively drive organizational or technical improvements.

Partner Deeply with Engineering & Influence Technical Direction

• Using your background in infrastructure, distributed systems, or SRE to help teams make sound design and prioritization decisions.
• Facilitate alignment between cross-functional teams to ensure programs are technically grounded and execution-ready.
• Bring systems thinking to diagnose reliability bottlenecks and drive improvements to scalability, fault tolerance, automation, and operational tooling.

Elevate Reliability Culture Across the Organization

• Drive adoption of reliability best practices across engineering teams - including error budgets, incident reviews, design-for-resilience patterns, and operational readiness.
• Define and implement program governance, repeatable processes, metrics, and documentation to scale reliability efforts across teams.
• Evangelize reliability expectations and engineer-empowering processes that reduce operational load and improve incident preparedness.

What we look for:

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience managing and delivering large-scale technical programs in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, SRE, or platform engineering environments.
• Experience developing infrastructure at two or more hyperscale cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), with knowledge of cloud primitives, multi-AZ/region architecture, and control plane/data plane patterns.
• Demonstrated success leading Reliability Programs at scale -  including availability, failover, operational excellence, incident reduction,  or dependency hardening.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure, distributed systems, or SRE practices; previous engineering or SRE experience is highly preferred.
• Experience partnering directly with senior engineering leadership to define strategy and drive large, multi-team initiatives.
• Ability to translate ambiguous goals into actionable program plans with clear milestones, KPIs, and success metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex cross-organizational dependencies, technical risks, and multi-quarter timelines.
• Experience delivering programs across multiple clouds and/or large-scale cloud-native services.
• Experience building and scaling engineering processes, operational frameworks, and stakeholder alignment mechanisms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in distributed systems engineering, SRE, platform infrastructure, or cloud services.
• Experience with large-scale compute fleets, container orchestration, autoscaling, or control-plane architecture.
• Familiarity with reliability methodologies such as SLOs, error budgets, chaos engineering, failure mode analysis, and incident management frameworks.
• Expertise using Jira or equivalent tools for program tracking and execution.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; advanced degree preferred.

P-1489

About Databricks

At Databricks, we are passionate about empowering data teams to tackle the world's most complex challenges — from bringing the next mode of transportation to reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We achieve this by building and operating the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, enabling our customers to leverage deep data insights and enhance their business.

The Role

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Staff Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Reliability to lead the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of our most critical Reliability initiatives across infrastructure and product engineering teams at Databricks. As Databricks scales to support thousands of customers and the world’s most data-intensive workloads, Reliability is foundational to our mission. In this role, you will lead cross-company programs that significantly enhance the reliability, performance, and operational excellence of our multi-cloud infrastructure.

This is a high-visibility, high-impact leadership role partnering closely with our most senior engineering leaders, including Reliability Program executive sponsors, senior TLs, and Engineering Managers to define Reliability strategy, set long-term goals, and execute multi-quarter programs to build the most reliable cloud platform on the planet to help our customers run their mission-critical workloads on. 

To be successful, you must possess a deep understanding of large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and engineering principles that drive operational excellence. You will leverage your background to anticipate risks, shape technical direction, and deliver complex programs across product, engineering, SRE, and cloud partner teams.

You will have the opportunity to:

Lead Reliability Strategy + Multi-Quarter Roadmaps

• Partner with senior engineering leadership to define the long-term Reliability roadmap, influence technical direction, and ensure alignment across teams.
• Ensure clarity and alignment on priorities across engineering teams, including Platform Engineering, Compute Fleet Management, SRE, Security, and Cloud Partnerships.

Drive Execution of Critical Reliability Programs

• Own program execution end-to-end: planning, risk management, dependency mapping, trade-off decisions, status reporting, and delivery.
• Identify gaps in process or architecture and work with TLs to proactively drive organizational or technical improvements.

Partner Deeply with Engineering & Influence Technical Direction

• Using your background in infrastructure, distributed systems, or SRE to help teams make sound design and prioritization decisions.
• Facilitate alignment between cross-functional teams to ensure programs are technically grounded and execution-ready.
• Bring systems thinking to diagnose reliability bottlenecks and drive improvements to scalability, fault tolerance, automation, and operational tooling.

Elevate Reliability Culture Across the Organization

• Drive adoption of reliability best practices across engineering teams - including error budgets, incident reviews, design-for-resilience patterns, and operational readiness.
• Define and implement program governance, repeatable processes, metrics, and documentation to scale reliability efforts across teams.
• Evangelize reliability expectations and engineer-empowering processes that reduce operational load and improve incident preparedness.

What we look for:

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience managing and delivering large-scale technical programs in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, SRE, or platform engineering environments.
• Experience developing infrastructure at two or more hyperscale cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), with knowledge of cloud primitives, multi-AZ/region architecture, and control plane/data plane patterns.
• Demonstrated success leading Reliability Programs at scale -  including availability, failover, operational excellence, incident reduction,  or dependency hardening.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure, distributed systems, or SRE practices; previous engineering or SRE experience is highly preferred.
• Experience partnering directly with senior engineering leadership to define strategy and drive large, multi-team initiatives.
• Ability to translate ambiguous goals into actionable program plans with clear milestones, KPIs, and success metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex cross-organizational dependencies, technical risks, and multi-quarter timelines.
• Experience delivering programs across multiple clouds and/or large-scale cloud-native services.
• Experience building and scaling engineering processes, operational frameworks, and stakeholder alignment mechanisms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in distributed systems engineering, SRE, platform infrastructure, or cloud services.
• Experience with large-scale compute fleets, container orchestration, autoscaling, or control-plane architecture.
• Familiarity with reliability methodologies such as SLOs, error budgets, chaos engineering, failure mode analysis, and incident management frameworks.
• Expertise using Jira or equivalent tools for program tracking and execution.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; advanced degree preferred.

P-1299

Databricks is radically simplifying the entire data lifecycle, from ingestion to generative AI and everything in-between. We’re doing it cross-cloud with a unified platform, currently serving over 10k customers, processing exabytes of data/day on 15+ million VMs, and growing exponentially. 

To make it happen we’re building multi-cloud systems at every corner of the data ecosystem, from query engines, vector databases, training pipelines, and storage systems, down to the infrastructure that allows them to scale like auto-sharders, caches, and load balancers, just to name a few. We also build and support the tooling, languages, and stacks that bring it together. Basically, we do it all. 

The space we work in and the problems we solve are massive, complex, and very deep (our published work on Lakehouse, Delta lake, and Photon are a testament to that). We’re looking for practitioners who are eager to work with the best in industry to push the boundaries of what’s possible for our customers. If you’re truth seeking, data driven, and love to operate from first principles (head fake: our core values), then Databricks is the place for you.

As a part of the Database Engine team, there are opportunities to design and implement in many areas that leapfrog existing state-of-the-art systems:

• Query compilation & optimization
• Distributed query execution and scheduling
• Vectorized engine execution
• Data security
• Resource Management
• Transaction coordination
• Efficient storage structures (encoding, indexes)
• Automatic physical data optimization

What we look for:

• PhD in databases or systems
• A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, and/or performance optimization
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact

The Enterprise Applications team at Databricks is on an ambitious journey to transform how we run the business.  Our mission is to build resilient, in-house platforms and AI-powered capabilities that provide a genuine competitive advantage, powering our next doubling in size and revenue.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Enterprise Applications team, you will play a critical role delivering end-to-end applications that power our business and empower our employees with truly assistive technologies. You will be responsible for defining the technical roadmap, designing critical software systems, raising the bar on engineering excellence, mentoring junior engineers, and tackling the most challenging technical issues facing the team. You will be the technical leader for a team of software engineers.

The impact you’ll have:

• Define the technical strategy and roadmap for building in-house solutions for critical internal workflows
• Partner closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build end-to-end, AI-powered solutions 
• Eliminate technical risk by solving the most technically challenging issues or tackling the most complex development tasks facing the team
• Drive team best practices for engineering excellence, including design quality, operational reviews, testing strategies, and incident management.

What we look for:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of technical leadership and impact.
• 3+ years of engineering leadership experience, serving as the technical owner for the software systems owned by your team.
• Experience designing and building end-to-end, full-stack cloud-native applications
• Customer obsession and product engineering mindset
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence technical and business stakeholders
• History of raising the engineering quality bar, focus on execution and operational rigor
• Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams to align technical strategy with company business objectives.
• Passion for the data intelligence space.

Why Join Us?

• Work on high-impact, high-visibility initiatives that directly contribute to Databricks' growth trajectory.
• Lead and mentor a talented team of engineers solving challenging, customer-centric problems.
• Drive innovation in a fast-paced, data-driven environment where your work shapes the future of the company.

If you are passionate about building AI-powered solutions for running the business, we would love to hear from you!

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k) Plan
• Equity awards
• Flexible time off
• Paid parental leave
• Family Planning
• Gym reimbursement
• Annual personal development fund
• Work headphones reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Business travel accident insurance
• Mental wellness resources

The Enterprise Applications team at Databricks is on an ambitious journey to transform how we run the business.  Our mission is to build resilient, in-house platforms and AI-powered capabilities that provide a genuine competitive advantage, powering our next doubling in size and revenue.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Enterprise Applications team, you will play a critical role delivering end-to-end applications that power our business and empower our employees with truly assistive technologies. You will be responsible for defining the technical roadmap, designing critical software systems, raising the bar on engineering excellence, mentoring junior engineers, and tackling the most challenging technical issues facing the team. You will be the technical leader for a team of software engineers.

The impact you’ll have:

• Define the technical strategy and roadmap for building in-house solutions for critical internal workflows
• Partner closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build end-to-end, AI-powered solutions 
• Eliminate technical risk by solving the most technically challenging issues or tackling the most complex development tasks facing the team
• Drive team best practices for engineering excellence, including design quality, operational reviews, testing strategies, and incident management.

What we look for:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of technical leadership and impact.
• 3+ years of engineering leadership experience, serving as the technical owner for the software systems owned by your team.
• Experience designing and building end-to-end, full-stack cloud-native applications
• Customer obsession and product engineering mindset
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence technical and business stakeholders
• History of raising the engineering quality bar, focus on execution and operational rigor
• Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams to align technical strategy with company business objectives.
• Passion for the data intelligence space.

Why Join Us?

• Work on high-impact, high-visibility initiatives that directly contribute to Databricks' growth trajectory.
• Lead and mentor a talented team of engineers solving challenging, customer-centric problems.
• Drive innovation in a fast-paced, data-driven environment where your work shapes the future of the company.

If you are passionate about building AI-powered solutions for running the business, we would love to hear from you!

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k) Plan
• Equity awards
• Flexible time off
• Paid parental leave
• Family Planning
• Gym reimbursement
• Annual personal development fund
• Work headphones reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Business travel accident insurance
• Mental wellness resources

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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will work with your team and product management to make insights from data simple. We are looking for engineers that are customer obsessed, who can take on the full scope of the product and user experience beyond the technical implementation. You'll set the foundation for how we build robust, scalable and delightful products.

Below are some example experiences you'll create for our customers to achieve the full project lifecycle from loading data, visualizing results, creating statistical models, and deploying as production artifacts.

• Simple workflows to create, configure, and manage large-scale compute clusters, networks and data sources.
• Create, deploy, test, and upgrade complex data pipelines with powerful features to visualize data graphs.
• Seamless onboarding and management for all members of an organization to become data-driven.
• Provide a great SQL-centric data exploration and dashboarding experience on Databricks
• An interactive environment for collaborative data projects at massive scale with an easy path to production.

What we look for:

• 5+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience leading large multi-quarter efforts with a demonstrated customer or business impact
• Passion for user experience and design and an understanding of front-end architecture
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
• Motivated by delivering customer value
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or VueJs/Ember)
• Familiarity with server-side web technologies is a plus
• Knowledge of (and a passion for) current trends and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance, accessibility, security and usability
• Experience building large-scale products

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k) Plan
• Equity awards
• Flexible time off
• Paid parental leave
• Family Planning
• Gym reimbursement
• Annual personal development fund
• Work headphones reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Business travel accident insurance
• Mental wellness resources

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

As a federal government contractor, Databricks requires new U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Proof of vaccination will be required as a condition of employment. Databricks will make reasonable accommodations based on medical conditions or religious grounds for qualified candidates in accordance with applicable law.

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About This Role

As a software engineer for GenAI inference, you will help design, develop, and optimize the inference engine that powers Databricks’ Foundation Model API. You’ll work at the intersection of research and production, ensuring our large language model (LLM) serving systems are fast, scalable, and efficient. Your work will touch the full GenAI inference stack — from kernels and runtimes to orchestration and memory management.

What You Will Do

• Contribute to the design and implementation of the inference engine, and collaborate on model-serving stack optimized for large-scale LLMs inference
• Collaborate with researchers to bring new model architectures or features (sparsity, activation compression, mixture-of-experts) into the engine
• Optimize for latency, throughput, memory efficiency, and hardware utilization across GPUs, and accelerators
• Build and maintain instrumentation, profiling, and tracing tooling to uncover bottlenecks and guide optimizations
• Develop and enhance scalable routing, batching, scheduling, memory management, and dynamic loading mechanisms for inference workloads
• Support reliability, reproducibility, and fault tolerance in the inference pipelines, including A/B launches, rollback, and model versioning
• Integrate with federated, distributed inference infrastructure – orchestrate across nodes, balance load, handle communication overhead
• Collaborate cross-functionally: with platform engineers, cloud infrastructure, and security/compliance teams
• Document and share learnings, contributing to internal best practices and open-source efforts when possible

What We Look For

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, or a related field
• Strong software engineering background (3+ years or equivalent) in performance-critical systems
• Solid understanding of ML inference internals: attention, MLPs, recurrent modules, quantization, sparse operations, etc.
• Hands-on experience with CUDA, GPU programming, and key libraries (cuBLAS, cuDNN, NCCL, etc.)
• Comfortable designing and operating distributed systems, including RPC frameworks, queuing, RPC batching, sharding, memory partitioning
• Demonstrated ability to uncover and solve performance bottlenecks across layers (kernel, memory, networking, scheduler)
• Experience building instrumentation, tracing, and profiling tools for ML models
• Ability to work closely with ML researchers, translate novel model ideas into production systems
• Ownership mindset and eagerness to dive deep into complex system challenges
• Bonus: published research or open-source contributions in ML systems, inference optimization, or model serving

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About This Role

As a staff software engineer for GenAI Performance and Kernel, you will own the design, implementation, optimization, and correctness of the high-performance GPU kernels powering our GenAI inference stack. You will lead development of highly-tuned, low-level compute paths, manage trade-offs between hardware efficiency and generality, and mentor others in kernel-level performance engineering. You will work closely with ML researchers, systems engineers, and product teams to push the state-of-the-art in inference performance at scale.

What You Will Do

• Lead the design, implementation, benchmarking, and maintenance of core compute kernels (e.g. attention, MLP, softmax, layernorm, memory management) optimized for various hardware backends (GPU, accelerators)
• Drive the performance roadmap for kernel-level improvements: vectorization, tensorization, tiling, fusion, mixed precision, sparsity, quantization, memory reuse, scheduling, auto-tuning, etc.
• Integrate kernel optimizations with higher-level ML systems
• Build and maintain profiling, instrumentation, and verification tooling to detect correctness, performance regressions, numerical issues, and hardware utilization gaps
• Lead performance investigations and root-cause analysis on inference bottlenecks, e.g. memory bandwidth, cache contention, kernel launch overhead, tensor fragmentation
• Establish coding patterns, abstractions, and frameworks to modularize kernels for reuse, cross-backend portability, and maintainability
• Influence system architecture decisions to make kernel improvements more effective (e.g. memory layout, dataflow scheduling, kernel fusion boundaries)
• Mentor and guide other engineers working on lower-level performance, provide code reviews, help set best practices
• Collaborate with infrastructure, tooling, and ML teams to roll out kernel-level optimizations into production, and monitor their impact

What We Look For

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, or a related field
• Deep hands-on experience writing and tuning compute kernels (CUDA, Triton, OpenCL, LLVM IR, assembly or similar sort) for ML workloads
• Strong knowledge of GPU/accelerator architecture: warp structure, memory hierarchy (global, shared, register, L1/L2 caches), tensor cores, scheduling, SM occupancy, etc.
• Experience with advanced optimization techniques: tiling, blocking, software pipelining, vectorization, fusion, loop transformations, auto-tuning
• Familiarity with ML-specific kernel libraries (cuBLAS, cuDNN, CUTLASS, oneDNN, etc.) or open kernels
• Strong debugging and profiling skills (Nsight, NVProf, perf, vtune, custom instrumentation)
• Experience reasoning about numerical stability, mixed precision, quantization, and error propagation
• Experience in integrating optimized kernels into real-world ML inference systems; exposure to distributed inference pipelines, memory management, and runtime systems
• Experience building high-performance products leveraging GPU acceleration
• Excellent communication and leadership skills — able to drive design discussions, mentor colleagues, and make trade-offs visible
• A track record of shipping performance-critical, high-quality production software
• Bonus: published in systems/ML performance venues (e.g. MLSys, ASPLOS, ISCA, PPoPP), experience with custom accelerators or FPGA, experience with sparsity or model compression techniques

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About This Role

As a staff software engineer for GenAI inference, you will lead the architecture, development, and optimization of the inference engine that powers Databricks Foundation Model API.. You’ll bridge research advances and production demands, ensuring high throughput, low latency, and robust scaling. Your work will encompass the full GenAI inference stack: kernels, runtimes, orchestration, memory, and integration with frameworks and orchestration systems.

What You Will Do

• Own and drive the architecture, design, and implementation of the inference engine, and collaborate on model-serving stack optimized for large-scale LLMs inference
• Partner closely with researchers to bring new model architectures or features (sparsity, activation compression, mixture-of-experts) into the engine
• Lead the end-to-end optimization for latency, throughput, memory efficiency, and hardware utilization across GPUs, and accelerators
• Define and guide standards to build and maintain instrumentation, profiling, and tracing tooling to uncover bottlenecks and guide optimizations
• Architect scalable routing, batching, scheduling, memory management, and dynamic loading mechanisms for inference workloads
• Ensure reliability, reproducibility, and fault tolerance in the inference pipelines, including A/B launches, rollback, and model versioning
• Collaborate cross-functionally on Integrating with federated, distributed inference infrastructure – orchestrate across nodes, balance load, handle communication overhead
• Drive cross-team collaboration: with platform engineers, cloud infrastructure, and security/compliance teams
• Represent the team externally through benchmarks, whitepapers, and open-source contributions

What We Look For

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, or a related field
• Strong software engineering background (6+ years or equivalent) in performance-critical systems
• Proven track record of owning complex system components and driving architectural decisions end-to-end
• Deep understanding of ML inference internals: attention, MLPs, recurrent modules, quantization, sparse operations, etc.
• Hands-on experience with CUDA, GPU programming, and key libraries (cuBLAS, cuDNN, NCCL, etc.)
• Strong background in distributed systems design, including RPC frameworks, queuing, RPC batching, sharding, memory partitioning
• Demonstrated ability to uncover and solve performance bottlenecks across layers (kernel, memory, networking, scheduler)
• Experience building instrumentation, tracing, and profiling tools for ML models
• Ability to lead through influence - work closely with ML researchers, translate novel model ideas into production systems
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with a proactive and ownership-driven mindset
• Bonus: published research or open-source contributions in ML systems, inference optimization, or model serving

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Databricks is on a mission to simplify and democratize data and AI — 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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

Vancouver will be the newest R&D center for Databricks, expanding our presence in the Pacific Northwest. We are actively hiring world-class engineers to join us on our mission to democratize data + AI.  

We envision the Vancouver site becoming a key driver of product innovation at Databricks. To start, we’re bringing a few strategic areas to the Vancouver site and we have several open roles across the teams below, including:

• Log Analytics - Our customers increasingly use Databricks to analyze petabyte-scale logs in real time. This creates new challenges across the entire data processing pipeline, including ingestion, indexing, processing, and the user experience itself.
• AI/BI - AI/BI is redefining Business Intelligence for the AI age. We launched this product last summer and have already seen tremendous adoption (98.7% of our data warehousing customers are already using AI/BI!). From rich dashboarding and advanced visualizations to powerful talk-to-your-data solutions, the products we are building involve exciting technical challenges across the entire stack. 
• Unity Catalog Business Semantics - Context is everything for AI. For enterprise data, that context needs to be governed and managed, which is what Unity Catalog Business Semantics offers. We recently launched our first Semantics modelling capability, Unity Catalog Metrics, this past Data + AI Summit but we have a lot more in store. Engineers on this team work at the intersection of large scale distributed systems, data modeling, governance, and AI enablement.
• Databricks Apps - Databricks Apps is one of the fastest growing products at Databricks, used by more than 2,500 customers who have created more than 20,000 apps — and it was only GA’ed this past June. The Apps team is one of the few teams that are exposed to low-level platform components (k8s, networking), owns fundamental tech (apps runtime and proxy), and is heavily investing in app builder AI agents.

What we look for:

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
• 5+ years of production level experience in either Java, Scala or C++.
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
• 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.

Databricks is on a mission to simplify and democratize data and AI — 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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

As a Fullstack software engineer, you will work with your team and product management to make insights from data simple. We are looking for engineers that are customer obsessed, who can take on the full scope of the product and user experience beyond the technical implementation. You'll set the foundation for how we build robust, scalable and delightful products.

Vancouver will be the newest R&D center for Databricks, expanding our presence in the Pacific Northwest. We are actively hiring world-class engineers to join us on our mission to democratize data + AI.  

We envision the Vancouver site becoming a key driver of product innovation at Databricks. To start, we’re bringing a few strategic areas to the Vancouver site and we have several open roles across the teams below, including:

• Log Analytics - Our customers increasingly use Databricks to analyze petabyte-scale logs in real time. This creates new challenges across the entire data processing pipeline, including ingestion, indexing, processing, and the user experience itself.
• AI/BI - AI/BI is redefining Business Intelligence for the AI age. We launched this product last summer and have already seen tremendous adoption (98.7% of our data warehousing customers are already using AI/BI!). From rich dashboarding and advanced visualizations to powerful talk-to-your-data solutions, the products we are building involve exciting technical challenges across the entire stack. 
• Unity Catalog Business Semantics - Context is everything for AI. For enterprise data, that context needs to be governed and managed, which is what Unity Catalog Business Semantics offers. We recently launched our first Semantics modelling capability, Unity Catalog Metrics, this past Data + AI Summit but we have a lot more in store. Engineers on this team work at the intersection of large scale distributed systems, data modeling, governance, and AI enablement.
• Databricks Apps - Databricks Apps is one of the fastest growing products at Databricks, used by more than 2,500 customers who have created more than 20,000 apps — and it was only GA’ed this past June. The Apps team is one of the few teams that are exposed to low-level platform components (k8s, networking), owns fundamental tech (apps runtime and proxy), and is heavily investing in app builder AI agents.

What we look for:

• 10+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Passion for user experience and design and a deep understanding of front-end architecture.
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Motivated by delivering customer value.
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or VueJs/Ember).
• 10+ years of experience with server-side web technologies (eg: Node.js, Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++,Go).
• Good knowledge of SQL.
• Experience with cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes.
• Experience developing large-scale distributed systems.

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As a Senior Applied ML/AI Engineer at Databricks, you will apply machine learning and optimization algorithms to improve the usability and efficiency of the current AutoML and several other user-facing products that will benefit from better classification, regression, forecasting, and recommendations, either classical or based on deep learning. From statistical models all the way down to deep and foundational models, feature augmentation and auto-tuning, our Applied ML/AI team works on some of the most complex, most interesting problems facing businesses, making Databricks' infrastructure and products as performant and cost-efficient as possible. This is a high-impact problem as our customers look at us to deliver the most out of their data.

The impact you will have:

• Build features and run end-to-end systems in a small team of experienced engineers and data scientists.
• Shape the direction of our applied ML investment by engaging with engineering and product teams across the company.
• Drive the development and deployment of state-of-the-art ML/AI models and systems that directly impact the capabilities and performance of Databricks’ products, infrastructure, and services.
• Architect and implement robust, scalable ML infrastructure, including model training and serving components to support seamless integration of AI/ML models into production environments.
• Work on novel modeling techniques in the field of ML for forecasting.
• Possibilities to contribute to the broader AI community by presenting at conferences and actively participating in open source projects, enhancing Databricks’ reputation as an industry leader.

What we look for:

• 2-8 years of machine learning engineering experience in high-velocity, high-growth companies
• Strong understanding of both computer systems and statistics
• Experience developing AI/ML systems at scale in production
• Strong track record of ML modeling that goes beyond using standard libraries.
• Strong coding and software engineering skills, and familiarity with software engineering principles around testing, code reviews, and deployment.
• A large breadth of knowledge or willingness to develop mathematical modelling beyond the ML.
• Nice to have: experience deploying, scaling, and monitoring models in production; understanding of the unique infrastructure challenges posed by training and serving predictions in Tier 0 environments.

Why Join Us?

At Databricks, we are building state-of-the-art AI solutions that redefine how users interact with data and our products. You’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of AI-driven products at Databricks, work with cutting-edge models, and collaborate with a world-class team of AI and ML experts.

If you're excited about pushing the boundaries of AI in real-world applications, we’d love to hear from you!

Databricks is on a mission to simplify and democratize data and AI — 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 can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

Vancouver will be the newest R&D center for Databricks, expanding our presence in the Pacific Northwest. We are actively hiring world-class engineers to join us on our mission to democratize data + AI.  

We envision the Vancouver site becoming a key driver of product innovation at Databricks. To start, we’re bringing a few strategic areas to the Vancouver site and we have several open roles across the teams below, including:

• Log Analytics - Our customers increasingly use Databricks to analyze petabyte-scale logs in real time. This creates new challenges across the entire data processing pipeline, including ingestion, indexing, processing, and the user experience itself.
• AI/BI - AI/BI is redefining Business Intelligence for the AI age. We launched this product last summer and have already seen tremendous adoption (98.7% of our data warehousing customers are already using AI/BI!). From rich dashboarding and advanced visualizations to powerful talk-to-your-data solutions, the products we are building involve exciting technical challenges across the entire stack. 
• Unity Catalog Business Semantics - Context is everything for AI. For enterprise data, that context needs to be governed and managed, which is what Unity Catalog Business Semantics offers. We recently launched our first Semantics modelling capability, Unity Catalog Metrics, this past Data + AI Summit but we have a lot more in store. Engineers on this team work at the intersection of large scale distributed systems, data modeling, governance, and AI enablement.
• Databricks Apps - Databricks Apps is one of the fastest growing products at Databricks, used by more than 2,500 customers who have created more than 20,000 apps — and it was only GA’ed this past June. The Apps team is one of the few teams that are exposed to low-level platform components (k8s, networking), owns fundamental tech (apps runtime and proxy), and is heavily investing in app builder AI agents.

What we look for:

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
• 10+ years of production level experience in either Java, Scala or C++.
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
• 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.

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At Databricks, we are passionate about helping data teams 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 can use deep data insights to improve their business.

Founded by engineers, Databricks has started a multi-year journey to build the best Data Intelligence Platform. For this we are building on top of a great foundation but our goal is to go further to build dramatically better products. We want to revisit every component to provide our customers with the fastest, easiest to use and most secure data platform for all their data workloads.

As a software engineer, you will join as a founding member of not only the Belgrade site, but really as a founding team for our multi-year journey to achieve our Lakehouse vision. You will be involved in the entire development cycle and exemplify all core Databricks values.

The impact you'll have:

Our backend teams span many domains across our essential service platforms. For instance, you might work on challenges such as:

• Problems that span from product to infrastructure including: distributed systems, at-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration, and developer experience.
• Build reliable, secure and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends, e.g., AWS S3, GCS, Azure Blob Store.
• Develop product features that empower our customers to easily store and access their data.

What we look for:

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
• 8+ 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
• Knowledge of SQL

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At Databricks, we are passionate about helping data teams 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 can use deep data insights to improve their business.

Founded by engineers, Databricks has started a multi-year journey to build the best Data Intelligence Platform. For this we are building on top of a great foundation but our goal is to go further to build dramatically better products. From the Storage Engine (data layout, encryption, caching, ...) to the Query Engine (Vectorization, Query Optimization, …), we want to revisit every component to provide our customers with the fastest, easiest to use and most secure data platform for all their data workloads.

As a software engineer, you will join as a founding member of the not only the Belgrade site, but really as a founding team for our multi-year journey to achieve our Lakehouse vision. You will be involved in the entire development cycle and exemplify all core Databricks values (own-it, data decide, teamwork, customer-obsessed).

The responsibilities you will have:

• Drive requirements clarity and design decisions for ambiguous problems
• Produce technical design documents and project plans
• Develop new features
• Mentor more junior engineers
• Test and rollout to production, monitoring.

What we look for:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience in databases or distributed systems
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact
• 5+ years of production level experience in either Java, Scala or C++
• Solid foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases
• Experience with distributed systems, databases, and big data systems (Apache Spark™, Hadoop)

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Our mission at Databricks is to radically simplify the whole data lifecycle from ingestion to ETL, BI, and all the way up to ML/AI with a unified platform. To achieve this goal, we believe the data warehouse architecture as we know it today will be replaced by a new architectural pattern, Lakehouse (CIDR 2021 paper), open platforms that unify data warehousing and advanced analytics. This new architecture will help address several major challenges, including data staleness, reliability, total cost of ownership, data lock-in, and limited use-case support.

To achieve this vision, Databricks is building the next generation (decoupled) query engine and structured storage system that can outperform specialized data warehouses in relational query performance. Yet we will retain the expressiveness and robustness of general purpose systems such as Apache Spark™ to support diverse workloads ranging from ETL to data science. You will be part of this multi-year journey.

As part of this team, you will design these next-generation systems that leapfrog state-of-the-art within the following areas:

• Query compilation and optimization
• Distributed query execution and scheduling
• Vectorized execution engine
• Data security
• Resource management
• Transaction coordination
• Efficient storage structures (encodings, indexes)
• Automatic physical data optimization

The responsibilities you will have:

• Drive requirements clarity and design decisions for ambiguous problems
• Produce technical design documents and project plans
• Develop new features
• Mentor more junior engineers
• Test and rollout to production, monitoring.

What we look for:

• A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, or performance optimization
• Are comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
• Be customer-oriented and focused on having an impact
• 7+ years of experience working in a related system
• Optional: PhD in databases or distributed systems

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Our mission at Databricks is to radically simplify the whole data lifecycle from ingestion to ETL, BI, and all the way up to ML/AI with a unified platform. To achieve this goal, we believe the data warehouse architecture as we know it today will be replaced by a new architectural pattern, Lakehouse (CIDR 2021 paper), open platforms that unify data warehousing and advanced analytics. This new architecture will help address several major challenges, including data staleness, reliability, total cost of ownership, data lock-in, and limited use-case support.

To achieve this vision, Databricks is building the next generation (decoupled) query engine and structured storage system that can outperform specialized data warehouses in relational query performance. Yet we will retain the expressiveness and robustness of general purpose systems such as Apache Spark™ to support diverse workloads ranging from ETL to data science. You will be part of this multi-year journey.

As part of this team, you will design these next-generation systems that leapfrog state-of-the-art within the following areas:

• Query compilation and optimization
• Distributed query execution and scheduling
• Vectorized execution engine
• Data security
• Resource management
• Transaction coordination
• Efficient storage structures (encodings, indexes)
• Automatic physical data optimization

The responsibilities you will have:

• Drive requirements clarity and design decisions for ambiguous problems
• Produce technical design documents and project plans
• Develop new features
• Mentor more junior engineers
• Test and rollout to production, monitoring.

What we look for:

• A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, or performance optimization
• Are comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
• Be customer-oriented and focused on having an impact
• 5+ years of experience working in a related system
• Optional: PhD in databases or distributed systems