Joblaze summary

In this role at Databricks, the Staff Software Engineer will oversee the entire data collection stack, including browser tags, mobile SDKs, and server-side endpoints, ensuring high quality and reliability. Key skills include extensive experience in JavaScript, server-side collection, and a solid understanding of privacy requirements. This position is ideal for a seasoned engineer with over a decade of experience, particularly those who have led complex software projects and possess strong collaboration skills. Databricks emphasizes a culture of ownership and innovation, making it a fitting environment for proactive leaders.

Joblaze insights

Listed about 2 months ago — first seen on Joblaze August 28, 2026. Last confirmed on Databricks's careers page October 28, 2026.
Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
Starts above 25% of 236 comparable staff backend roles in United States we track (median $212,000 across 67 companies).
JavaScript appears in 3.2% of 314 comparable staff backend roles in United States.

Quick facts

What's the salary range?: Databricks lists $190,900–$253,750 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer, Data Collection (Tags & SDKs) role.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Android, JavaScript, iOS.
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, Data Collection (Tags & SDKs) role at Databricks.

From the original posting

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At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to 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 — and customer-obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started.

First-party data collection is the entry point for everything downstream. It also runs on other people's websites and inside other people's apps, which raises the bar from a quality, reliability, and development experience. We are looking for an engineer to lead that surface, client and server side.

The impact you'll have:

Lead the collection stack end to end: browser tag, mobile SDKs, server-side endpoints, and the ingest path behind them
Define the schema and versioning contract, including compatibility across SDK versions already in the field
Lead identity handling that spans anonymous and authenticated records, across devices and sessions
Lead integrations with other CustomerLake products like Profile & Campaign Agents
Hold hard budgets on page weight, latency, and failure behavior, so that collection never degrades the host application
Partner closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build intuitive, scalable, and extensible solutions that drive user & business growth

What we look for:

10+ years of engineering experience, including time as a tech lead, or leading other tech leads, on complex enterprise software projects
Ownership of an SDK or client library consumed by external developers, including native iOS and Android
Deep browser-side JavaScript experience: bundle size, async loading, CSP, storage and cookie restrictions, tracking prevention
High-throughput server-side collection: edge endpoints, batching, retries, and delivery guarantees
Practical grounding in consent and privacy requirements, including regional routing and data minimization
High ownership and bias for action in 0→1 environments: you are comfortable making pragmatic trade-offs, operating with incomplete information, and driving projects from idea through launch and adoption
Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and design teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives
Combination of technical and people leadership, for example, as a TLM (Nice to have)
Experience building a CDP, analytics SDK, or tag management product (Nice to have)
Experience with incident response for code deployed on customer properties (Nice to have)

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.

Local Pay Range

$190,900—$253,750 USD

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Staff Software Engineer, Data Collection (Tags & SDKs)

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