Databricks: Sr. Software Engineer - Observability — 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 Sr. Software Engineer - Observability in Bengaluru, India, under reference 7925560002. 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: 25 March 2025

Responsibilities and work described

• Establishment: standards for logging, metrics, and tracing
• Collaboration: with different teams to identify metrics that allow engineers to observe how well the system and different subcomponents are performing
• Building: tooling and infrastructure to allow components to efficiently emit, aggregate, and store metrics that can be displayed on dashboards and used for alerting
• Quality / delivery: the scalability, performance, and reliability of systems by contributing to and executing the technical roadmap
• Participate in on-call rotations and reduce incident response times to maintain operational excellence
• Optimize platform and infrastructure by analyzing system expenses, enhancing visibility, promoting mindful usage, enforcing retention policies, streamlining queries, and right-sizing resources to reduce observability costs

Essential requirements and candidate background

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field
• 7+ years of production-level experience in one of: Python, Java, Scala, C++, or similar languages
• Experience: software development in large-scale distributed systems
• Familiarity: metrics collection, health monitoring, and observability tools

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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Practical preparation: Python

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Relevant skills

• Python
• Java
• C++
• Excel
• AI
• compliance
• incident response