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Senior Software Engineer - Backend

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-18 Bellevue, Washington Hybrid ICT

Company shared salary

NA

Market rate

₹14,000–₹22,000/mo (₹168,000–₹264,000/yr)

Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).

About the Company

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.

Responsibilities

  • Work with your team to build infrastructure and products for the Databricks platform at scale
  • Build Databricks serverless platform that powers the big data, machine learning and Gen AI workloads
  • Automatically improve the performance and efficiency of workloads running on the platform while also ensuring they scale to millions of machines across a multi-cloud environment
  • Build cutting-edge OS, container and networking technologies that power the entire Databricks infrastructure, from internal infrastructure, to serverful, and to serverless platform
  • Improve the security, efficiency and reliability across the fleet
  • Build and grow a partner ecosystem for Databricks SQL
  • Build and offer a variety of toolkits to support partners and customers' deep and seamless integrations with Databricks
  • Maintain and nurture productive and beneficial partnerships within the ecosystem
  • Build multi-language multi-user collaborative REPL experience for Databricks users with high level of reliability and responsiveness, with a focus on Data Science and AI/ML authoring and experimentation experiences in notebooks
  • Build tools, frameworks and platforms to allow Databricks engineers to build, deploy and operate services with "batteries included"
  • Improve the scale, observability and safety of all Databricks services across different clouds while improving every engineer's developer experience

Requirements

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