Staff Software Engineer (App-Framework)

Highlights

• Design application frameworks powering all software development at Databricks.
• Optimize core platform performance, reliability and scalability at massive scale.
• Help build best data and AI infrastructure platform for global customers.

Ideal candidate

Systems-obsessed Staff engineer with 12+ years building high-performance infrastructure who loves low-level optimization, solving complex technical challenges, and mentoring others toward technical excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field
• 12+ 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 with extensive runtime environment experience
• Strong programming skills in Scala, Java, Rust or other systems-level languages
• Extensive experience with OS concepts including processes, threads, concurrency, scheduling and I/O
• Proven track record building and optimizing high-performance, scalable and reliable systems
• Experience with distributed systems concepts and technologies
• Experience with performance profiling and tuning tools
• Experience with RPC frameworks