Databricks · 2 days ago
Staff Software Engineer - User Activation
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$192K/yr - $260K/yr
15+ years expDatabricks is a data and AI company that empowers data teams to tackle significant challenges through its innovative platform. The Staff Engineer on the User Activation team will lead the technical vision and execution for enhancing customer onboarding and product experiences, collaborating with various teams to drive product-led growth.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataInformation TechnologyAnalyticsData IntegrationData ManagementData StorageMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Define and drive the strategy for customer onboarding, workspace experience, account management, and other horizontal product experiences
Partner closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build intuitive, scalable, and extensible solutions that drive product-led growth
Lead architectural decisions to ensure performance, reliability, and simplicity across core user flows
Hands-on full-stack software development to create dynamic, user-centric experiences
Drive best practices for engineering excellence, including design reviews, code quality, testing strategies, and performance optimizations
Collaborate cross-functionally with teams developing vertical product experiences (Lakehouse Platform, SQL Warehouse, AI/BI Dashboards) and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration and innovation
Qualification
Required
15+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of technical leadership and impact
5+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers
Expertise in Front End or Full Stack development
Experience designing and building scalable SaaS platforms, onboarding flows, or customer growth-focused product experiences
Expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and modern web application architectures
Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives
Passion for the data intelligence space
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.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$29.05BKey Investors
JP MorganFidelity,Insight Partners,J.P. Morgan Asset ManagementAndreessen Horowitz,Insight Partners,MGX,Thrive Capital,WCM Investment Management
2026-02-09Debt Financing· $2B
2026-01-23Debt Financing· $1.8B
2025-12-16Series Unknown· $5B
Leadership Team
Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-founder
Ion Stoica
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman
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