Databricks: Senior Staff Software Engineer- Search Quality — 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- Search Quality in Bengaluru, India, under reference 8439350002. 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: 26 February 2026

Subjects named in the job description

The posting mentions the following work areas. These references are not a separate list of compulsory certifications.

• LLMs
• SQL
• Excel
• AI
• compliance

Essential requirements and candidate background

• The IR Specialist: You know your way around Lucene/Elasticsearch, embeddings, and ranking algorithms
• The Quality and Metrics Obsessive: You understand that "relevance" is subjective and love building evaluation frameworks (human-in-the-loop and LLM-based) to measure it
• You are obsessed with relevance metrics (nDCG, MRR, Precision@K)
• The Bridge Builder: You’re excited to apply traditional Information Retrieval (IR) wisdom to the cutting-edge world of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

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 Staff Software Engineer- Search Quality vacancy is not an offer for reference 8439350002; use the employer’s own pay disclosure and recruitment communication.

A closing date is not confirmed in this article. Check the current employer page before submitting: an undated posting can change or be withdrawn.

How to apply to Databricks

Applications follow the official employer page linked below.

Open the official Databricks posting below and match the title and reference 8439350002.

Compare your qualifications and experience with the essential conditions for the Bengaluru, India position, then read the preferred criteria separately.

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Practical preparation: SQL

SQL references usually call for more detail than “database knowledge”. Explain the data you queried, the business or engineering question and how you checked that joins, aggregates and filters produced the intended result.

Relevant skills

• LLMs
• SQL
• Excel
• AI
• compliance