Databricks
Staff Software Engineer, Lakeflow Pipelines DR
$192K–$260K
Mountain View, California +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California - Experience
- 8+ years of experience working on related systems preferred.
About the job
Designs and implements distributed systems to replicate and recover Lakeflow pipelines across regions, preserving correctness through infrastructure failures and cloud-region outages.
What you'll do
- Build cross-region replication and recovery for Lakeflow pipelines, streaming tables, and materialized views.
- Develop consistency, failover, and failback workflows across pipeline dependencies, table versions, and transaction logs.
- Create recovery simulations, observability, failure-injection tests, and game-day testing.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering skills in Java, Scala, C++, Go, Python, or a similar production language.
- Understanding of consistency, transactions, idempotency, replication, checkpointing, and data lineage.
- Ability to define and work toward a multi-year technical vision with incremental, production-quality deliverables.
Nice to have
- Passion for distributed systems, databases, storage systems, streaming systems, or reliability engineering.
- PhD or advanced research experience in databases, distributed systems, or storage.
Pay
$192,000 — $260,000 USD (salary range)
Tools
Java, Scala, C++, Go, Python
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