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Senior Staff Software Engineer - DeltaDatabricks · Zürich, Switzerland
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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

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🗓️ Posted 2026-08-18 Zürich, Switzerland Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 8,333 EUR–12,500 EUR/mo

About the Company

Databricks is obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. They build and run the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, allowing customers to focus on high-value challenges. Their engineering teams develop and operate one of the largest scale software platforms, consisting of millions of virtual machines, generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day. The Delta DML team owns the core write-path operations for Delta Lake, the open-source storage layer behind the Databricks Lakehouse, with a mission to deliver industry-leading performance and a seamless user experience at massive scale.

Role & Responsibilities

  • ● Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering skills.
  • ● Perform low-level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters.
  • ● Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.
  • ● Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services.
  • ● 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.
  • ● Contribute as a technical team lead by mentoring others, leading sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members, and participating in project planning.

Requirements

Education

  • ● BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

Experience

  • ● 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.

Skills

  • ● 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.