Senior Software Engineer — Backend (Files Team)
Databricks Mosaic · San Francisco, California
CHECKED 16H AGO
Infrastructureonsitesenior$166k–$225k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build filesystem platform powering tens of thousands of AI workloads daily.
- Shape filesystem strategy at intersection of storage and distributed systems.
- Push filesystem performance from API layer down to Linux kernel.
What they offer
- Annual performance bonus
- Equity
- Comprehensive benefits
Ideal candidate
A systems-minded builder who loves deep performance work and shaping platform direction. You care about enabling AI agents at scale and thrive tackling hard distributed problems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years of production-level experience in Java, Scala, C++, Go, Rust or similar
- 3+ years developing large-scale distributed systems
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or MicroVMs like Firecracker and cloud internals
- Experience with filesystems and FUSE
- Experience building object/blob storage such as S3, Azure Blob Storage, or GCS
- Systems performance engineering across microservices to Linux level
- Background in high-scale content, storage, or file-sync products
Lab profile
About Databricks Mosaic
Builds unified data analytics and AI platform to productionize AI applications.
What they build
- Databricks platform
- Unified Data Analytics and AI
- AI platform
Known for
- Forward-deployed AI engineering
- Productionizing first-of-kind AI applications
- Customer platform adoption and scale
- Cross-functional engineering and product collaboration