Databricks
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Lakeflow Pipelines Datasets
$229K–$314K
Mountain View, California +2 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 2, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California - Experience
- 10+ years building, operating, and evolving large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Education
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent depth of experience).
About the job
Sets technical direction and leads development of Databricks’ large-scale pipeline and materialized-view infrastructure, from design and optimization through production delivery.
What you'll do
- Architect and deliver scalable, fault-tolerant declarative pipeline and materialized-view systems.
- Lead deep systems work, including production performance diagnosis, low-level debugging, and cost and latency optimization.
- Drive technical strategy and multi-team initiatives from planning through delivery and customer adoption.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in one or more of database internals, storage systems, distributed computing, streaming systems, language/API design, or performance engineering.
- Track record of delivering a multi-year technical vision through incremental milestones.
- Strong algorithmic foundations and experience building alignment across teams and driving initiatives through customer adoption.
Pay
$228,600 — $314,250 USD (salary range)
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