Staff Software Engineer - Access Management
Join Databricks as a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Access Management team in enhancing security for data analytics and ML platforms.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 2 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 2 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In the role of Staff Software Engineer for Access Management at Databricks, the individual will focus on enhancing the platform's core authorization services, ensuring secure and efficient access control for users and applications. Key skills include expertise in access management and distributed systems, along with a proven ability to lead technical initiatives across multiple locations. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a background in designing scalable backend services, particularly those interested in contributing to a critical security function within a rapidly growing company.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 2 months ago — first seen on Joblaze August 8, 2026. Last confirmed on Databricks's careers page October 8, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Security roles (median ~$170,000).
- Starts above 30% of 10 comparable staff security roles in United States that list security we track (median $197,000 across 8 companies). See security salary trends
- security appears in 14.4% of 104 comparable staff security roles in United States; distributed systems appears in 5.8% of 104 comparable staff security roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer - Access Management role remote?
- It's hybrid — Databricks expects some on-site time in Bellevue, Washington.
- What's the salary range?
- Databricks lists $180,500–$203,025 for this role.
- Where is the role based?
- Databricks is hiring for this position in Bellevue, Washington.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: access management, authorization systems, distributed systems, security.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Databricks targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer - Access Management role at Databricks.
From the original posting
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Summary
At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, so our customers can focus on the high-value challenges that are central to their missions.
Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We constantly push the boundaries of data and AI technology, while simultaneously operating with the resilience, security, and scale that is critical to making customers successful on our platform.
Customers trust Databricks with their most valuable data and Trust & Safety has the mission to build the most trusted data analytics and ML platform in the world. Security Engineering is an integral part of Trust & Safety and has a critical role to play in keeping customer data from bad actors. We are looking for senior leaders such as yourselves to create the vision and define the strategy for this space.
We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Access Management team at Databricks, based in Bellevue, WA. Access Management owns the access-gating systems at the core of the Databricks platform – the services that decide, for every user, application, and automated workload, what they are permitted to do. You will set technical direction for the Bellevue engineers and partner with our Mountain View technical lead on a team distributed across both sites.
What you'll work on:
- Evolving the platform's core authorization service – the system is on the critical path of every access-control decision.
- Migrating and consolidating permission-checking across the platform onto a unified authorization model.
- Building fine-grained access controls: scoped service identities, delegated access, and role-based access control.
- Network ingress access policy for customer resources.
- Raising the availability and reliability of a high-throughput, low-latency authorization service.
What we're looking for:
- Deep expertise in access management, identity, or authorization systems.
- Strong distributed systems and security fundamentals.
- Demonstrated technical leadership on a team, ideally across multiple locations.
- Track record of designing and shipping backend services at scale.
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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