Senior Staff Software Engineer - Lineage & Tagging

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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. Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We constantly push the boundaries of data and AI technology, while simultaneously operating with the resilience and scale that is critical to making customers successful on our platform.

Databricks Unity Catalog is the industry’s only unified and open governance solution for data and AI, built into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. It offers organizations a comprehensive view of their data, allowing for seamless governance and discovery of data in any format. The platform enhances productivity through intelligent search, discovery, and auto-generated insights and documentation. We are seeking senior leaders like you to help shape the vision and define the strategy for this space.

The impact you will have:

• Drive key feature areas for Unity Catalog like Lineage and Tagging, by planning and leading large-scale technical projects.

• Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.

• Lead systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters.

• Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services.

• Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.

• Contribute as a Technical Lead by mentoring others, lead project planning, delegating work to team members.

What we look for:

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

• 15+ years of experience building large scale distributed systems with high availability

• 5+ years of technical leadership experience building complex production systems

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a demonstrable bias toward action.

• Leadership skills and experience to lead across functional and organizational lines

• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

Zone 1 Pay Range
$228,400—$303,550 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Benefits

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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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