Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta · Databricks

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:54:14 GMT
Engineering

Databricks · Amsterdam, Netherlands · remote

We are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems. Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We develop and operate one of the largest scale software platforms, consisting of millions of virtual machines that generate terabytes of logs and process exabytes of data per day.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our backend team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend systems that power Databricks workspaces. You will build the next-generation platform for serving workspace assets, ensuring high QPS, low latency, reliable, and performant systems, proactively addressing the future growth challenges.

As a senior member of the team, you will provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers, contributing to the overall improvement of team coding practices and system designs.

The Impact you will have:

Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering.

Low level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters.

Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.

Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services.

Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.

Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.

Contribute as a technical team lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.