Databricks
Sr. Staff Software Engineer — Observability, Insights & Governance
$217K–$299K
Bellevue, Washington +2 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 2, 2026
- Location
- Bellevue, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Mountain View, California - Experience
- 12+ years.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Lead the technical strategy and architecture 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 query, warehouse, workspace, and account-level observability and governance.
- Lead projects that improve customer performance, reliability, cost transparency, and agentic telemetry insights.
- Mentor and recruit engineers, set technical standards, and partner across product, AI, security, and platform teams.
What they ask for
- 12+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, observability or governance platforms, databases, or backend infrastructure.
- Track record of technical leadership and long-term architecture in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Strong computer science fundamentals applied to high-throughput 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.
Nice to have
- Experience building agentic experiences using LLMs.
- MS/PhD.
Pay
$217,100 — $298,550 USD (salary range; Zone 2)
Tools
LLMs, Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog
AI focus
Build agentic observability and governance experiences that let users and automated agents investigate, diagnose, and act on telemetry; experience with LLM-based agentic experiences is a bonus.
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