Senior Software Engineer (App-Framework)

Highlights

• Design app frameworks that serve as building blocks for all Databricks software.
• Optimize core platform infrastructure running across millions of virtual machines.
• Build data and AI platform powering 20,000+ organizations worldwide.

Ideal candidate

Senior backend engineer obsessed with low-level systems and performance who thrives on solving complex infrastructure puzzles and mentoring others toward technical excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• 7+ years of professional experience in software development
• Deep understanding of JVM internals including garbage collection, JIT compilation, class loading, and memory model
• Proficiency in at least one JVM language and extensive experience with its runtime environment
• Strong programming skills in Scala, Java, Rust or other systems-level languages
• Extensive experience with operating system concepts including processes, threads, concurrency, scheduling, and I/O
• Proven track record building and optimizing high-performance, scalable, reliable systems
• Experience with distributed systems concepts and technologies
• Experience with performance profiling and tuning tools and RPC frameworks