Senior Staff Software Engineer - Lakeflow Pipelines Datasets
Databricks, Mountain View, California +1
What you will do
- Architect and deliver a highly scalable, fault-tolerant platform for declarative pipelines and materialized views serving thousands of production customers.
- Turn ambiguous, large-scale technical challenges into clear execution plans that ship incrementally and hold up at exabyte scale.
- Bridge the gap between research and production by bringing ideas from the academic literature or internal R&D into systems that solve real customer problems.
- Lead deep systems work: performance diagnosis on large production clusters, low-level debugging, and optimization that moves the needle on cost and latency.
- Shape product direction alongside engineering and product leadership, owning technical strategy from design through delivery.
- Drive complex, multi-team technical initiatives that require sustained coordination and clear technical judgment.