IT & Software

Staff Software Engineer - Backend

DataBricks

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

Join Databricks as a Software Engineer and help build the Lakehouse Platform from our London site. You will work on backend services spanning product to infrastructure, focusing on reliable, secure, high-performance systems and data access across cloud storages (S3, GCS, Azure). You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define SLIs/SLOs and drive long-term reliability. This founding team role offers the chance to influence platform direction and shape a mission-driven data and AI platform.

Responsibilities
  • Build reliable, secure and high-performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing large data volumes on cloud backends (AWS S3, GCS, Azure Blob Storage)
  • Develop product features enabling easy storage and access to data
  • Investigate and fix reliability issues related to Lakebase and reduce downtime
  • Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs to guide reliability improvements
  • Participate in the full development cycle as a founding member for the London site
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve problems spanning product and infrastructure
Key requirements
  • BS degree in Computer Science or related field
  • 8+ years of production-level experience in Java, Scala, C++, or similar language
  • Experience developing large-scale distributed systems
  • Experience with SaaS platforms or Service-Oriented Architectures
  • Knowledge of SQL
  • customer focus
  • collaboration
  • problem-solving
  • Java
  • Scala
  • C++

Reference: WJ-747_30171493

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