Staff Software Engineer - Ingestion

We are looking for engineers with experience in core Database internals to join our Lakeflow Connect team. A key part of Connect is to extract data from OLTP systems while imposing minimal load on production systems. To do this efficiently we are building systems that use techniques such as incremental data capture, log parsing, etc. We are looking for engineers who continue to be hands on and are looking to make a large impact on an important problem for the company.

The Impact you will have:

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering.
• Deliver a highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers
• Low level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters.
• Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects
• Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.
• Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
• A strong influencer or driver in the organization’s roadmap and direction.
• Lead a TLG or similar review committee, or initiate and sustain an org/eng-wide initiative driven by engineering needs.
• Break down complex problems quickly into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, and de-risk (through prototyping/validation).
• Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.

What we look for:

• 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in areas like Database replication, backup, transaction recovery at one of the major database vendors (Microsoft SQL Server , Oracle, IBM etc).
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
• Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction.

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

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