Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Posted by employer 2 years ago
First seen on Joblaze 6 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 8 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
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 6 months ago — first seen on Joblaze April 14, 2026. Last confirmed on Databricks's careers page October 27, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 5 other locations at Databricks: Bengaluru, India, Bellevue, Washington, Vancouver, Canada, Belgrade, Serbia, Mountain View, California.
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, SQL, SaaS, Scala, distributed systems.
- 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
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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
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