Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure

P-1346

At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. Databricks Mosaic AI offers a unique data-centric approach to building enterprise-quality, Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions, enabling organizations to securely and cost-effectively own and host ML and Generative AI models, augmented or trained with their enterprise data. And we're only getting started in Bengaluru , India  - and currently in the process of setting up 10 new teams from scratch ! 

The Money team's mission at Databricks is to maximize the value that our customers derive from their investments in data projects. We accomplish this through innovative commercialisation strategies, timely & accurate billing,  cost optimisation tools, intelligent resource usage controls, and cutting-edge engineering. We provide a seamless and consistent experience set of platforms for all Databricks products to reach customers.

As one of the first engineers for Money at Databricks India, you will be key to building a base for one of Databricks’ most central engineering teams. You will own critical components that form the backbone of our products, starting with Databricks’ resource admission control and usage governance infrastructure. Your role is crucial in helping bring diverse business needs together, including abuse prevention, product commercialisation motions, and reliable product availability at scale. You will work closely with infrastructure as well as product teams in bringing critical governance functionality to Databricks customers.

The impact you will have:

• Design and manage Money systems and services, governing usage of all Databricks products and offerings.
• Enhance engineering and infrastructure efficiency, reliability, accuracy, and response times, including CI/CD processes, test frameworks, data quality assurance, end-to-end reconciliation, and anomaly detection.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to develop and implement innovative infrastructure that scales to meet evolving needs.
• Provide leadership in long-term vision and requirements development for Databricks products, in partnership with our engineering teams.
• Represent Databricks at academic and industrial conferences & events.

What we look for:

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, or a related field
• 12+ years of production level experience in one of: Java, Scala, C++, or similar language.
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Proven track record in architecting, developing, deploying, and operating large scale distributed systems.
• Experience with software security and systems that handle sensitive data.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to lead across functional and organizational boundaries.
• A proactive approach and a passion for delivering high-quality solutions
• Experience with cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes.