Databricks
Sr. Staff Software Engineer — Observability, Insights & Governance
$229K–$314K
Mountain View, California +2 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 2, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California
San Francisco, California
Mountain View, California - Experience
- 12+ years.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads technical strategy and execution for query observability, SQL warehouse management, and account-level observability and governance across Databricks’ data and AI platform.
What you'll do
- Set long-term technical direction and architecture across observability, warehouse management, and governance.
- Lead projects that improve performance, reliability, and cost transparency, including agentic experiences for investigating and acting on telemetry.
- Partner across teams, mentor senior engineers, set technical standards, and recruit engineering talent.
What they ask for
- 12+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, observability or governance platforms, databases, or backend infrastructure.
- Track record as a technical leader driving architecture and incremental customer impact in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Strong computer science fundamentals applied to high-throughput systems problems.
- Experience in one or more of observability and telemetry pipelines, query engines and analytics, distributed tracing and metrics, time-series storage, data governance, or large-scale logging systems.
Nice to have
- Experience building agentic experiences using LLMs.
- MS/PhD.
Pay
$228,600 — $314,250 USD (salary range)
Tools
LLMs, Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog
AI focus
Shape agentic observability and governance experiences that let users and automated agents investigate, diagnose, and act on telemetry; LLM experience is a bonus.
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