Databricks
Sr. Software Engineer- Backend
$165K–$220K
New York City, New York +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jan 16, 2026
- Location
- New York City, New York
New York - Experience
- 5+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering.
About the job
Build and operate backend infrastructure for Databricks’ AI platform, improving distributed AI workloads and enabling developers and data scientists to build AI applications.
What you'll do
- Build infrastructure for AI products including MLflow, AI Gateway, Databricks Apps, and Foundation Model APIs.
- Improve the reliability, latency, and efficiency of distributed AI workloads.
- Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and ML teams to deliver end-to-end experiences.
What they ask for
- Strong programming skills in Scala, Go, or Python.
- Experience with distributed systems, scalable APIs, or cloud-native infrastructure.
- Familiarity with service-oriented architecture, deployment pipelines, and system observability.
- Strong product and ownership mindset.
Nice to have
- Experience with real-time serving, ML infrastructure, or GPU orchestration.
- Exposure to SageMaker, Vertex AI, or Azure ML; OSS contributions or experience building developer platforms are also noted as bonuses.
Pay
$165,300 — $219,675 USD (base salary)
Tools
Scala, Go, Python, SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML, MLflow, PyTorch
AI focus
Build infrastructure for AI applications, agents, model training and serving, and vector search; improve distributed AI workloads.
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