Databricks · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer, Observability
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$191K/yr - $254K/yr
7+ years expDatabricks is a data and AI company focused on enabling data teams to tackle complex problems. The Staff Software Engineer in the Observability team will develop solutions to monitor the health and performance of products and infrastructure, manage extensive cloud infrastructure, and enhance incident diagnosis workflows.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
You will build the next generation of observability platforms that support billions of active time series and process petabytes of logs daily
You will manage infrastructure across nearly a hundred cloud regions, enabling all Databricks engineers and customers to monitor the reliability of our product
You will develop advanced workflows that accelerate incident diagnosis for Bricksters, allowing engineers to quickly derive insights from logs and metrics
You will leverage powerful capabilities of Databricks’ own data intelligence platform to push the boundaries of troubleshooting practices in the industry
You will uplevel monitoring and reliability practices across Databricks engineering, developing opinionated tools that set common standards for managing structured logs, metrics, alerts, dashboards, and oncall rotations
Mentor and uplevel engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence within the team and broader observability community
Qualification
Required
BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
7+ years of production-level experience in one of: Go, Python, Java, Scala, Rust, C++, or similar languages
Experience in software development, in large-scale distributed systems
Experience driving large projects involving multiple teams
Experience with cloud technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes
Familiarity with observability infrastructure, monitoring patterns, and reliability practices
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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