engineering
Posted 2 days agoSenior Staff Software Engineer - Delta
at Databricks
London, United KingdomOn-site
Responsibilities
- Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.
- Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services. Use your deep
- Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
Requirements
- At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development.
- We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are central to their own missions.
- The Delta DML team owns the core write-path operations for Delta Lake, the open-source storage layer behind the Databricks Lakehouse.
- experience at massive scale, with most data written in Databricks flowing through our platform. We drive performance innovations like Low Shuffle Merge and Deletion Vectors and actively contribute to open source efforts to unify Delta and Iceberg formats.
- In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend systems that power Databricks workspaces.
- experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience. About Databricks
- Databricks is the data and AI company.
- More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI.
- Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow.
- To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter , LinkedIn and Facebook . Benefits
- At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive
- At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel.
- Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance
Benefits
- Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
- benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the
Additional details
- Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world.
- We develop and operate one of the largest scale software platforms.
- The fleet consists of millions of virtual machines, generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day.
- At our scale, we regularly observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above.
- Our mission is to deliver industry-leading performance and a seamless user
- You will build the next-generation platform for serving workspace assets, ensuring high QPS, low latency, reliable, and performant systems, proactively addressing the future growth challenges.
- Additionally, as a senior member of the team, you will provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers, contributing to the overall improvement of team coding practices and system designs.
- Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering.
- Low level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters.
- experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.