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Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Observability

As a software engineer in the Observability team, you will develop observability solutions that provide insights into the health and performance of our products and infrastructure. You will build the next generation of observability platforms that support billions of active time series and process petabytes of logs daily.

Mountain View, California, United StatesonsiteFULL_TIME

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About the role

What will you do at Databricks?

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At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's

toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to

accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building

and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our

customers can use deep data insights to improve their business.

Our engineering teams build technical products that fulfill real, important

needs in the world. We always push the boundaries of data and AI technology,

while simultaneously operating with the security and scale that is important to

making customers successful on our platform.

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 observe cloud hardware,

network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield

our customers from any of the above.

As a software engineer in the Observability team, you will develop observability

solutions that provide insights into the health and performance of our products

and infrastructure.

The impact you'll have:

* 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.

What we look for

  • * * BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.
  • * 15+ 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.
  • Pay Range Transparency
  • Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay
  • range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range
  • for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles.
  • Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to
  • each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of
  • experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location.
  • Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of
  • the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include
  • eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above.
  • For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page
  • here
  • [https://www.databricks.com/sites/default/files/2024-08/us-pay-zone-mapping.pdf].
  • Local Pay Range
  • $235,000—$295,000 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide

— including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 —

rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data,

analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices

around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache

Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter

[https://twitter.com/databricks], LinkedIn

[https://www.linkedin.com/company/databricks] and Facebook

[https://www.facebook.com/databricksinc].

Benefits

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

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/154un3e8Xav4BceOSlcYFZRGEuQI54xMxVydRwQn54eQ/edit? usp=sharing].

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.

Compliance

If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for

performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply

for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to

proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Which skills does this role require?

GoPythonJavaScalaRustC++Cloud TechnologiesAWSAzureGCPDockerKubernetesObservability InfrastructureMonitoring PatternsReliability PracticesSoftware DevelopmentDistributed SystemsInfrastructureObservabilityCloudVirtual MachinesLogsData InsightsIncident DiagnosisMonitoringReliabilityStructured LogsMetricsAlertsDashboardsOncall RotationsTechnical Excellence

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