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Databricks · 3 months ago

Senior Software Engineer - Application Traffic team

positionMountain View, California
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$166K/yr - $225K/yr
date5+ years exp

Databricks is a data and AI company that provides a platform enabling data teams to solve complex problems. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Application Traffic team, you will design and build systems for service-to-service communication in a multi-cloud environment, focusing on networking abstractions and reliability under high load.

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
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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

Distributed systemsService-oriented architecturesCloud platformsJavaKubernetesLoad balancingScalaGoC++DockerService discoveryDNSEnvoy

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

Annual performance bonus
Equity
Comprehensive benefits and perks

Company

Databricks

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Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture.
dateFounded in 2013
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size5001-10000 employees
web-link
https://www.databricks.com

H1B Sponsorship

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2025 (385)
2024 (319)
2023 (227)
2022 (222)
2021 (166)
2020 (64)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$25.81B
Key Investors
Counterpoint GlobalFranklin TempletonAndreessen Horowitz
2025-12-16Series Unknown· $4B
2025-09-08Series Unknown· $1B
2025-01-13Debt Financing· $5.25B

Leadership Team

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Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-founder
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David Conte
Chief Financial Officer
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