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[Remote] Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Data Systems

Worldwide Salaried Open

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Databricks is the data and AI company that empowers data teams to solve complex problems. The role involves building next-generation distributed data storage and processing systems that enhance relational query performance while supporting diverse workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Building the next generation distributed data storage and processing systems that can outperform specialized SQL query engines in relational query performance
  • Providing reliable and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amounts of data on cloud storage backends
  • Developing a storage management system that combines the scale and cost-efficiency of data lakes with the performance and reliability of a data warehouse
  • Making it simple to orchestrate and operate tens of thousands of data pipelines through a higher level abstraction for expressing data pipelines
  • Building the next generation query optimizer and execution engine that is fast, tuning free, scalable, and robust

Skills

  • 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
  • 8+ 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 with distributed systems, databases, and big data systems (Apache Spark, Hadoop)

Benefits

  • Eligibility for annual performance bonus
  • Equity
  • Comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees

Company Overview

  • Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.databricks.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Databricks has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 72 in 2026, 385 in 2025, 319 in 2024, 227 in 2023, 222 in 2022, 166 in 2021, 64 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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