Staff Software Engineer - Multi Cloud Efficiency
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About the Position
Staff Software Engineer - Multi Cloud Efficiency
Bengaluru, India
At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems. We build and run the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. We're expanding our team in Bengaluru, India! As a Staff Software Engineer with a backend focus, you will work with your team to build infrastructure for the Databricks platform at scale.
Responsibilities
- Architect at Scale: Lead the design and implementation of systems to optimize cloud spend, driving impact in the magnitude of hundreds of millions of dollars. Architect solutions for complex problems like reserved-instance automation, tag-based cost attribution at scale, automated waste-cleanup policy engines, and cross-cloud resource governance.
- Drive Technical Strategy: Identify and deliver high-impact, well-adopted projects that solve complex efficiency problems. Define the roadmap for our efficiency pillar, conducting thorough design reviews and risk assessments for systems supporting the company's core infrastructure.
- Engineer for Efficiency: Design scalable systems for regression detection and automated resource rightsizing. Build the frameworks that allow product teams to measure their "efficiency footprint” and hold them accountable through automated release gates.
- Operational Excellence: Serve as a technical authority for incident management, addressing complex, system-wide performance issues. Improve the stability and reliability of our internal platform tools.
- Technical Leadership: Mentor junior and senior engineers, raising the bar for engineering quality and driving engineering culture across the organization.
- Build self-driving efficiency systems: Design the automation and agentic layers that let cost governance run continuously at scale, shifting the team from manual cleanup to systems that keep themselves efficient.
Requirements
- 9+ years of experience building production-grade, distributed systems in Java, Scala, C++, or Go.
- Proven track record of architecting solutions for large-scale infrastructure, cloud computing (AWS/Azure/GCP), and container orchestration (Kubernetes/Docker).
- Deep expertise in identifying and solving performance bottlenecks in high-throughput, distributed environments.
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical requirements for ambiguous problems where the path forward is not obvious.
- T-shaped engineering skills: depth in distributed systems and breadth across cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and software lifecycles.
About the Company
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide - including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 - rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.
We Offer
At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
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