Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will engage in the full development cycle, tackling challenges related to distributed systems and service architecture. Proficiency in languages like Java, Scala, or C++ is essential, along with experience in building large-scale SaaS platforms. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong background in backend development and a passion for creating high-performance data services. As a founding member of the Berlin site, the engineer will play a crucial role in shaping the future of Databricks' Lakehouse Platform.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Databricks's career page.
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Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer - Backend role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: C++, Java, distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, SQL, SaaS.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Databricks targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer - Backend role at Databricks.
From the original posting
P-1327
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 Lakehouse 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 Berlin 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
- 5+ 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.
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Benefits
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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
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