Senior Software Engineer, Compute InfrastructureActive$164K

The opportunity

Multi-cloud is core to Databricks product strategy. Compute serves as the layer that abstracts the cloud from the rest of the company.

What you'll do

  • Design and build the next generation of our Serverless platform, focusing on: high availability, low latency, and scale-to-zero efficiency.

  • Build a single compute stack that supports heterogeneous workloads, including: GPU instance qualification for AI training and stateful execution for Lakebase.

  • Solve Multi-Cloud Complexity: Develop platform-level abstractions that allow Databricks to run seamlessly across all major cloud providers.

  • Optimize everything from the API gateway down to the host-level networking and container orchestration.

  • Work alongside industry experts who have built world-class systems like Borg,: Kubernetes, and Uber’s infrastructure.

What they're looking for

  • + years of production-level experience in one of: Python, Java, Scala, C++, or a similar language
  • + years of experience developing large-scale distributed systems from scratch
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or MicroVM technologies (e.g.,: Firecracker) and a strong grasp of cloud provider internals (AWS/Azure/GCP).
  • You aren't just a user of tools; you understand how to build them from the: ground up when existing solutions fail at our scale.