Software Engineer - Database Engine Internals
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- PhD
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Software Engineer Intern will focus on designing and developing next-generation database systems, tackling challenges in query optimization, execution, and data management. Key skills include a strong background in database and distributed systems, with an emphasis on performance optimization and technical documentation. This position is ideal for experienced engineers, particularly those with over five years in related fields or a PhD in databases. Databricks is known for its innovative approach to data architecture, making it a dynamic environment for impactful work.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Databricks's career page.
- Databricks has 788 other open roles including Solutions Architect Greenfield (New Logo) Start Ups France, Sr. Solutions Engineer - AI Natives Business, Senior Solutions Architect.
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Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Software Engineer - Database Engine Internals role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Delta Lake, Apache Spark, MLflow.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Databricks targets intern candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Internship for this Software Engineer - Database Engine Internals role at Databricks.
From the original posting
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Our mission at Databricks is to radically simplify the whole data lifecycle from ingestion to ETL, BI, and all the way up to ML/AI with a unified platform. To achieve this goal, we believe the data warehouse architecture as we know it today will be replaced by a new architectural pattern, Lakehouse (CIDR 2021 paper), open platforms that unify data warehousing and advanced analytics. This new architecture will help address several major challenges, including data staleness, reliability, total cost of ownership, data lock-in, and limited use-case support.
To achieve this vision, Databricks is building the next generation (decoupled) query engine and structured storage system that can outperform specialized data warehouses in relational query performance. Yet we will retain the expressiveness and robustness of general purpose systems such as Apache Spark™ to support diverse workloads ranging from ETL to data science. You will be part of this multi-year journey.
As part of this team, you will design these next-generation systems that leapfrog state-of-the-art within the following areas:
- Query compilation and optimization
- Distributed query execution and scheduling
- Vectorized execution engine
- Data security
- Resource management
- Transaction coordination
- Efficient storage structures (encodings, indexes)
- Automatic physical data optimization
The responsibilities you will have:
- Drive requirements clarity and design decisions for ambiguous problems
- Produce technical design documents and project plans
- Develop new features
- Mentor more junior engineers
- Test and rollout to production, monitoring.
What we look for:
- A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, or performance optimization
- Are comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
- Be customer-oriented and focused on having an impact
- 5+ years of experience working in a related system
- Optional: PhD in databases or distributed systems
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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