Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience

Our Developer Experience team is dedicated to making Databricks engineers happy and highly productive. We build the tools, processes, and infrastructure to accelerate engineering velocity as Databricks scales. The ideal candidate will have a mix of technical expertise in one of language toolchains (Scala, Rust, Python), build systems (especially Bazel), compilers, version control systems, testing but most importantly a passion for solving developer experience problems, and a pragmatic ability to ship results iteratively.

The impact you'll have:

• Build world-class developer infrastructure that directly empowers every Databricks engineer to do their best work, every day.
• Dramatically boost the reliability, speed, and efficiency of our largest builds, creating a blazing-fast dev loop and making Bazel a breeze to use.
• Create seamless, out-of-the-box development environments and IDE integrations, allowing engineers to dive into coding and debugging instantly, across all major languages (Scala, Rust, Go, Python, etc)
• Lead pivotal cross-functional projects, influence key architectural decisions, and mentor colleagues to cultivate a culture of innovation and operational excellence.
• Lead thorough evaluations with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to ensure our technology choices are strategically sound and perfectly aligned with our systems and architecture.

What we look for:

• Strong passion for improving developer workflows, productivity and infrastructure.
• In-depth understanding of the software development lifecycle and challenges faced by developers operating at scale.
• Experience with building and managing internal developer tools, CI/CD systems, or related infrastructure.
• Ability to think long-term while delivering incremental, measurable impact. You can balance big-picture strategic thinking with a passion for executing on high-priority initiatives.
• Coding chops, clean, elegant, bug-free code in languages like Scala, Rust, Java, Python, Go
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in fast paced software engineering organisations.
• BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.

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.

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