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Databricks · 1 day ago

Staff Software Engineer, Observability

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
money$191K/yr - $254K/yr
date7+ years exp

Databricks 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.

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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

GoPythonJavaCloud technologiesDistributed systemsObservability infrastructureMonitoring patternsReliability practicesMentoringProject management

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

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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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