Databricks: Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform) — 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 Software Engineer (Data Platform) in Bengaluru, India, under reference 7647369002. 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: 23 September 2024

Responsibilities and work described

• Design: and run the Databricks metrics store that enables all business units and engineering teams to bring their detailed metrics into a common platform for sharing and aggregation, with high quality, introspection ability and query performance
• Design: and run the cross-company Data Intelligence Platform, which contains every business and product metric used to run Databricks
• You’ll play a key role in developing the right balance of data protections and ease of shareability for the Data Intelligence Platform as we transition to a public company
• Development: tooling and infrastructure to efficiently manage and run Databricks on Databricks at scale, across multiple clouds, geographies and deployment types
• This includes CI/CD processes, test frameworks for pipelines and data quality, and infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Design: the base ETL framework used by all pipelines developed at the company
• Partner with our engineering teams to provide leadership in developing the long-term vision and requirements for the Databricks product
• Building: reliable data pipelines and solve data problems using Databricks, our partner’s products and other OSS tools
• Delivery: early feedback on the design and operations of these products
• Establishment: conventions and create new APIs for telemetry, debug, feature and audit event log data, and evolve them as the product and underlying services change
• Represent Databricks at academic and industrial conferences & events

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 6+ years of industry experience
• 4+ years of experience providing technical leadership on large projects similar to the ones described above - ETL frameworks, metrics stores, infrastructure management, data security
• Experience building, shipping and operating reliable multi-geo data pipelines at scale
• Experience working with and operating workflow or orchestration frameworks, including open source tools like Airflow and DBT or commercial enterprise tools
• Experience: large-scale messaging systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ or commercial systems
• Cross-functional and communication skills, consensus builder
• Passion for data infrastructure and for enabling others by making their data easier to access

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

A verified salary figure is not established in this article. An online estimate for another Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform) vacancy is not an offer for reference 7647369002; use the employer’s own pay disclosure and recruitment communication.

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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 7647369002.

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Practical preparation: CI/CD

CI/CD experience should describe the path from a proposed change to a release. Identify the checks, build artefacts and deployment steps you worked on, together with the problem the pipeline solved.

Relevant skills

• Kafka
• CI/CD
• APIs
• Excel
• AI
• audit
• compliance
• communication