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Databricks · 1 week ago

Senior Software Engineer - Observability (Databases)

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$166K/yr - $225K/yr
date4+ years exp

Databricks is a leading data and AI company that empowers organizations to solve complex problems through its data and AI infrastructure platform. As a Senior Software Engineer in the Runtime Observability team, you will develop observability solutions to provide insights into the performance and health of products and infrastructure, collaborating with teams to enhance system monitoring and debugging capabilities.

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
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Responsibilities

You will collaborate with different teams to identify metrics that allow engineers to observe how well the system and different subcomponents are performing
You will build infrastructure to allow components to emit, log, and aggregate metrics that can be displayed on dashboards and generate insights for debugging and performance analysis
You will scale the observability solutions to support millions of instances and billions of queries per day
You will develop processes and training for developers and field engineers to debug performance and reliability issues affecting customers

Qualification

JavaScalaC++Distributed systemsObservability toolsMetrics collectionHealth monitoringDebuggingPerformance analysisRelationship building

Required

BS (or higher degree) in Computer Science, or a related field
4+ years of production level experience in one of: Java, Scala, C++, or similar language
Experience in software development, in large-scale distributed systems
Familiarity with metrics collection, health monitoring, and observability tools
Experience building relationships with developers and field engineers to facilitate assessment and mitigation of performance and reliability problems

Benefits

Annual performance bonus
Equity

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

Databricks has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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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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