Staff Software Engineer - Backend

About the role

Databricks is hiring a Staff Software Engineer - Backend (P-1514) in London to join as one of the founding engineers building the Lakebase product and the London presence. Lakebase is a managed Postgres transactional layer that sits on top of the lakehouse, giving teams an optimized database developer experience and simplified operations. The role sits within the Lakebase team, which also covers reliability, the manager control plane and the proxy.

Key responsibilities

• Work on backend challenges spanning product to infrastructure, including distributed systems, at-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration and developer experience.
• Build reliable, secure and high-performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing large amounts of data on cloud storage backends such as AWS S3, GCS and Azure Blob Store.
• Develop product features that let customers store and access their data easily.
• Solve reliability problems related to Lakebase, find the causes of downtime and systematically remove root causes.
• Help the organization define SLIs, meet SLOs and drive long-term reliability improvements.

Required profile

• BS degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field.
• 8+ years of production-level experience in Java, Scala, C++ or a similar language.
• Experience developing large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures.

Required skills

• Java, Scala, C++ or similar languages
• SQL knowledge