Databricks · 2 days ago
Senior Software Engineer - Application Traffic team
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$166K/yr - $225K/yr
5+ years expDatabricks is a data and AI company that empowers data teams to tackle complex problems. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Application Traffic team, you will design and build systems for service-to-service communication across a multi-cloud environment, ensuring seamless connectivity and reliability.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Build the control plane for Databricks’ global ingress layer
Enable programming of API gateways with static and dynamic endpoints, simplify service onboarding, and make it easy to expose APIs securely across clouds
Design scalable mechanisms for service discovery and load balancing across thousands of clusters
Provide networking abstractions so product teams don’t need to worry about underlying connectivity details
Build intelligent rate limiting and admission control systems to protect critical services under high load
Ensure reliability and predictable performance for both customer-facing and internal workloads
Qualification
Required
BS (or higher) in Computer Science or related field
5+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems
Strong proficiency in one or more languages such as Java, Scala, Go, or C++
Experience with service-oriented architectures and large scale distributed systems
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container/orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)
Track record of shipping infrastructure that supports mission-critical workloads at scale
Preferred
background in service discovery, DNS, load balancing, Envoy, or related networking systems
Benefits
Eligibility for 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
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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
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