RDQ427R175 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 — 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
At Databricks, the Compute Infrastructure organization builds and operates the foundation that runs all Data, AI and stateful workloads across all major clouds. Our platform launches tens of millions of VMs per day, operates thousands of Kubernetes clusters, and must deliver extreme elasticity, reliability and cost efficiency
As a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead on the Compute Infra team, you will design and build the systems that power Databricks’ compute infrastructure to enable engineers to quickly launch and scale world-class products
The impact you will have: Develop the compute abstractions that provide powerful capabilities for all Databricks workloads, enabling engineers to build world-class products with high velocity and best-in-class performance Design the workload orchestration and scheduling systems that orchestrates all types of workloads (serving, batch, stateful, GPU) with high performance and efficiency Scale the fleet management systems that launch and configure millions of VMs every day across cloud providers Raise the technical and operational bar through strong design practices, testing, and a culture of engineering excellence and platform mindset
Lead cross-team initiatives that span product and infrastructure surface areas
What we look for: BS (or higher) in Computer Science or related field 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems Strong proficiency in one or more languages such as Java, Scala, Go, or C++ Experience with service-oriented architectures and large scale distributed systems Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container/orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) Track record of shipping infrastructure that supports mission-critical workloads at scale Pay Range Transparency Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary r