Reduce end-to-end latency, increase throughput, and reduce costs from the time data appears in source systems to when it is available in Delta Lake.
Design and optimize streaming and distributed workloads for throughput, cost, latency, reliability, and scale.
Optimize streaming workloads by exploring and applying ML techniques.
Build monitoring and observability capabilities (customer-facing and internal) that provide visibility into ingestion workflows and the systems running them.
Collaborate with partner teams to enable use cases like RAG and AI agents.
Build Agentic SDKs with strong evaluations.
Ideal Engineer should have
5+ years of experience writing production code in one of: Java, Scala, Go, C++, or Python.
Experience architecting, developing, and deploying large-scale distributed and asynchronous systems.
Experience with distributed systems, streaming, Spark, databases, data processing, or CDC.
Experience building or operating systems where scale, throughput, latency, reliability, and cost are important considerations.
Comfortable using AI tools and defining effective evals to shorten the development loop.
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
$166,000—$225,000 USD
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