Staff Backend Software Engineer- (AI Platform)Active$166K

Databricks
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The opportunity

At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data and AI teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and…

What you'll do

  • Build infrastructure that powers our flagship offerings like MLflow, AI: Gateway, Databricks Apps, Agent Framework, Agent Bricks, and Foundation Model APIs, to state a few.

  • Improve reliability, latency, and efficiency of distributed AI workloads

  • Collaborate with platform, infra, and ML teams to deliver seamless end-to-end experiences

  • Shape how developers and data scientists build and interact with AI on Databricks

  • + years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering

  • Strong programming skills in Scala, Go, or Python

What they're looking for

  • Experience with distributed systems, scalable APIs, or cloud-native infrastructure
  • Familiarity with service-oriented architecture, deployment pipelines, and system observability
  • Strong product and ownership mindset: you care about building the right solution, not just any solution
  • Experience with real-time serving, ML infrastructure, or GPU orchestration