Staff Software Engineer - DatabasesActive

Databricks
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The opportunity

At Databricks, we build powerful infrastructure that accelerates innovation and enables data teams to deliver with confidence and scale. Our unified schema migration platform underpins automated, observable, and developer-friendly workflows—ensuring Databricks can continue…

What you'll do

  • Schema Migration Platform: Architecting and maintaining automated schema change infrastructure for MySQL and TiDB, while implementing versioning, rollback, validation, and auditing for safe, predictable, and fast migrations.

  • Scale, Reliability & Test Harness: Ensuring the platform operates across thousands of global databases with zero downtime, enhancing resilience, observability, and recovery, and building a test harness for migration and deployment validation.

  • Developer Experience & CI/CD Integration: Designing intuitive tools and APIs for seamless schema and data change management, and embedding migration workflows into CI/CD pipelines to increase velocity and reduce friction.

  • Schema & Data management: Designing infrastructure for safe, large-scale schema and data operations like backfills and purging. This includes ensuring backfill operations are monitored, retryable, minimally disruptive, and automated to align with schema/data evolution and maintain data integrity.

  • Ensuring the scalability and reliability of schema and data operations across Databricks’ global footprint.

  • Driving predictable deployments by architecting robust test harnesses and automation.

What they're looking for

  • Elevating the developer experience by building accessible, resilient tools: that make complex migrations feel simple.
  • Guaranteeing the integrity of both schema and data through safe, efficient backfill strategies.
  • + years of professional experience in backend systems or platform engineering.
  • Experience in building platforms, infrastructure, or database engineering , especially with MySQL , TiDB .