Sr. Software Engineer - Ingestion Core team
Join Databricks as a Senior Software Engineer to build distributed systems for seamless data ingestion at scale.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 14 minutes ago
What you'll build
- Build distributed infrastructure to ingest data from diverse sources
- Reduce end-to-end latency and increase throughput
- Design and optimize streaming and distributed workloads
- Build monitoring and observability capabilities
- Collaborate with partner teams
Must have
- 5+ years of experience writing production code in one of: Java, Scala, Go, C++, or Python
- Experience architecting, developing, and deploying large-scale distributed systems
- Experience with distributed systems, streaming, Spark, databases, data processing, or CDC
Nice to have
- Experience building or operating systems where scale, throughput, latency, reliability, and cost are important
- Comfortable using AI tools
AI in the day-to-day
Comfortable using AI tools and defining effective evals to shorten the development loop.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
The Sr. Software Engineer on the Ingestion Core team at Databricks focuses on developing distributed systems to streamline the ingestion of high-volume data from various sources into Delta Lake. Key skills include proficiency in languages like Java, Scala, or Python, along with experience in building large-scale distributed systems and optimizing for performance and cost. This role is suited for engineers with over five years of experience who are comfortable with complex data processing challenges. The team is integral to enhancing the company's data and AI capabilities.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze September 18, 2026. Last confirmed on Databricks's careers page September 19, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 39% of 154 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list Python we track (median $174,000 across 66 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 43.8% of 493 comparable senior backend roles in United States; Delta Lake appears in 0.2% of 493 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Databricks lists $166,000–$225,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Sr. Software Engineer - Ingestion Core team role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: C++, Delta Lake, Go, Java, Python, Scala.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Databricks targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Sr. Software Engineer - Ingestion Core team role at Databricks.
From the original posting
Deeply understanding what’s in the enterprise data has been a challenge that Databricks has been addressing by providing analytics and machine learning tools. From data warehousing with Databricks SQL to large-scale distributed processing with Spark and advanced ML tools for experimentation and model serving, we empower our customers to gain insights and drive innovation.
To enable all of this on Databricks, making data ingestion seamless is crucial. That’s the mission of the Ingestion Core Team: to make the ingestion of all data—structured and unstructured—simple, reliable, and efficient. Simplifying the complex is hard, and that’s where you come in. This role requires building distributed platform systems to incrementally ingest high-volume, petabyte-scale data from diverse sources—including cloud storage (SQS, ADLS, GCS), databases (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres), and file sources (Google Drive, SharePoint)—at high throughput and low cost. The data includes structured formats (JSON, Parquet, CSV) as well as unstructured data (text, images, docs, PPTs, and blobs), all of which land in Delta Lake with schema evolution and change data capture (CDC) capabilities.
Join us in making data ingestion effortless and be part of the team that powers the future of AI + data at Databricks!
As an engineer on the team, you will work on projects that:
- Build distributed infrastructure to ingest data from diverse sources and support streaming ingestion, incremental processing, and replication. This isn’t just about building plugin connectors.
- Reduce end-to-end latency, increase throughput, and reduce costs from the time data appears in source systems to when it is available in Delta Lake.
- Design and optimize streaming and distributed workloads for throughput, cost, latency, reliability, and scale.
- Optimize streaming workloads by exploring and applying ML techniques.
- Build monitoring and observability capabilities (customer-facing and internal) that provide visibility into ingestion workflows and the systems running them.
- Collaborate with partner teams to enable use cases like RAG and AI agents.
- Build Agentic SDKs with strong evaluations.
Ideal Engineer should have:
- 5+ years of experience writing production code in one of: Java, Scala, Go, C++, or Python.
- Experience architecting, developing, and deploying large-scale distributed and asynchronous systems.
- Experience with distributed systems, streaming, Spark, databases, data processing, or CDC.
- Experience building or operating systems where scale, throughput, latency, reliability, and cost are important considerations.
- Comfortable using AI tools and defining effective evals to shorten the development loop.
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
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