Databricks: Senior Staff Software Engineer - Backend — Bengaluru, India

About Databricks

Databricks develops a platform for data, analytics and AI. Its employer material describes bringing related capabilities together so organisations can build and scale applications, analytics and agents using their information. The advertised platform portfolio includes data-engineering, lakehouse, governance and AI-related products. Its business connects the infrastructure used to manage data with the tools used to derive insights or create applications, rather than treating those activities as entirely separate technology projects.

The position and its setting

Databricks lists Senior Staff Software Engineer - Backend in Bengaluru, India, under reference 8421894002. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Engineering - Pipeline
• Employer listing date: 13 February 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development
• We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are central to their own missions
• Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world
• We develop and operate one of the largest scale software platforms
• The fleet consists of millions of virtual machines, generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day
• At our scale, we regularly observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above
• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering
• Delivery: a highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers
• Low level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters
• Building: architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects
• Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues
• Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company
• A influencer or driver in the organization’s roadmap and direction
• Leadership: a TLG or similar review committee, or initiate and sustain an org/eng-wide initiative driven by engineering needs
• Break down complex problems quickly into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, and de-risk (through prototyping/validation)
• Contribution: as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact
• Foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases
• Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Advertised location: Bengaluru, India

Benefits mentioned by the employer

• 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

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Databricks

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Open the official Databricks posting below and match the title and reference 8421894002.

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Practical preparation: Excel

Excel examples should identify the task, the data and the checks used to avoid an incorrect result. Explain whether you built a reporting workbook, reconciled records, automated a process or maintained an existing model.

Relevant skills

• AI/ML
• Excel
• AI
• compliance