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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Lakeflow Pipelines Datasets

Databricks ·
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AI-Agency
B45 U35
📍 Mountain View, US 💰 $228K–$314K Staff 10+ yrs
Apache SparkDelta LakeMLflowdistributed systemsstreaming systems
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Senior Staff Software Engineer at Databricks building the Lakeflow ETL platform. Architect large-scale distributed data pipelines, materialized views, and streaming systems serving thousands of production customers processing exabytes daily.

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Job description

Databricks builds the world's leading data and AI platform, used by tens of thousands of organizations to turn raw data into decisions that matter.

The Lakeflow Engineering team owns the entirety of the ETL product line: Declarative Dataflow Graphs, Materialized Views, Structured Streaming, and Flows. We run what is arguably the world's largest data engineering platform, processing exabytes of data daily across tens of thousands of customers. The problems we solve (fault-tolerant incremental computation, stream-batch unification, declarative pipeline orchestration at massive scale) sit at the frontier of what distributed data systems can do.

We're looking for a Senior Staff Engineer to serve as a technical architect and engineering leader for this platform. You'll own the long-term technical direction for how pipelines are defined, optimized, executed, and operated, shaping the systems that data teams worldwide depend on every day. You will work across one or more of the following areas to design and build the next generation of data infrastructure:

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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
$228,600$314,250 USD

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 TwitterLinkedIn and Facebook.

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