Staff Backend Software EngineerActive$190K

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 medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure…

What you'll do

  • Build the routing layer that picks the right model for each request across: quality, cost, latency, availability, and remaining budget

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

  • Collaborate with research, platform, infra, and AI/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, or Go

What they're looking for

  • Experience with distributed systems, high-throughput 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, AI infrastructure, or GPU orchestration