Databricks
Staff Software Engineer, Data Collection (Tags & SDKs)
$191K–$254K
New York City, New York +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Location
- New York City, New York
San Francisco, California - Experience
- 10+ years; includes time as a tech lead or leading other tech leads.
About the job
Leads Databricks’ first-party data collection stack across browser tags, mobile SDKs, server endpoints, and ingestion, ensuring reliable, compatible collection with minimal impact on host applications.
What you'll do
- Lead the collection stack end to end, including browser tags, mobile SDKs, server-side endpoints, and ingestion.
- Define schema and versioning contracts and lead identity handling across anonymous and authenticated records, devices, and sessions.
- Set performance and reliability budgets, lead product integrations, and partner across product, design, and engineering.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including time as a tech lead or leading other tech leads on complex enterprise software projects.
- Ownership of an SDK or client library used by external developers, including native iOS and Android.
- Deep browser-side JavaScript experience, including bundle size, async loading, CSP, storage and cookie restrictions, and tracking prevention.
- High-throughput server-side collection experience and practical grounding in consent and privacy requirements.
Nice to have
- Combination of technical and people leadership, for example as a TLM.
- Experience building a CDP, analytics SDK, or tag management product; incident response for code deployed on customer properties.
Pay
$190,900 — $253,750 USD (salary range)
Tools
JavaScript, iOS, Android
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