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Staff Software Engineer - Backend

San Francisco, California💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-09 → 2026-10-07

Core

Design, implement, and operate large-scale microservices and infrastructure for a global data and AI platform serving millions of users and processing exabytes of data.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

Builds

Distributed systems, data pipelines, cloud-native infrastructure, and enterprise platform services. (via careerplan.io/jobs/6544443002-staff-software-engineer-backend-at-databricks)

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, Big Data, Machine Learning Infrastructure

Required skills

Java, Scala, C++, distributed systems architecture, SaaS platform experience, SQL, software security, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

Preferred skills

Multi-year vision planning, experience with Service-Oriented Architectures

Technologies

Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, AWS, Azure, CloudFormation, Terraform, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Prioritize, design, implement, test, and operate micro-services; build data pipelines; integrate with third-party applications; interact with cloud APIs; build resource management infrastructure; deliver reliable storage services; build observability platforms; manage service deployment across environments.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope