Databricks · 2 weeks ago
Sr. Software Engineer - Performance
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$166K/yr - $225K/yrDatabricks is a leading data and AI company that enables data teams to tackle complex challenges through its robust infrastructure platform. As a Performance Engineer, you will evaluate product performance, identify bottlenecks, and collaborate with teams to enhance scalability and efficiency across Databricks' offerings.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Identify performance limitations of the entire stack based on telemetry, customer signals, PoCs, and competitive benchmarks, that will result in the best performing system across the industry, when resolved. Dimensions include latency, data and compute scalability, concurrency, cost, and price to performance ratio. Impact spans all cloud providers and all major areas
Set the performance expectations for all cross-cutting efforts early on through specialized benchmarks capturing the intended customer user journeys, and make sure they are met before deployed to customers
Understand the performance characteristics of the compute instance types, storage layers, and all cloud services Databricks depends on and deploy optimal solutions to meet the customer demand
Work with customers to root cause and mitigate performance problems during production, previews, and POCs
Qualification
Required
BS (or higher degree) in Computer Science, or a related field
Experience in the performance analysis discipline. Ability to identify performance issues, root cause problems, and be able to come up with potential solutions
Experience in software development, preferably in large scale distributed systems
Ability to measure and document the impact of performance features to existing customers, such as possible regressions for certain workloads, their extent, and which customers will be affected
Ability to build strong working relationships with developers and field engineers to facilitate triaging and mitigation of performance problems
Benefits
Annual performance bonus
Equity
Company
Databricks
Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture.
Founded in 2013
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$25.81BKey Investors
Counterpoint GlobalFranklin TempletonAndreessen Horowitz
2025-12-16Series Unknown· $4B
2025-09-08Series Unknown· $1B
2025-01-13Debt Financing· $5.25B
Leadership Team
Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-founder
David Conte
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2026-01-12
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