Databricks: Staff Software Engineer - Databases — 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 Staff Software Engineer - Databases in Bengaluru, India, under reference 7601565002. 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: 19 August 2024

Responsibilities and work described

• As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll lead the design, development, and reliability of our global platform that manages schema and data changes at scale:
• Schema Migration Platform: Architecting and maintaining automated schema change infrastructure for MySQL and TiDB, while implementing versioning, rollback, validation, and auditing for safe, predictable, and fast migrations
• Scale, Reliability & Test Harness: Ensuring the platform operates across thousands of global databases with zero downtime, enhancing resilience, observability, and recovery, and building a test harness for migration and deployment validation
• Developer Experience & CI/CD Integration: Designing intuitive tools and APIs for seamless schema and data change management, and embedding migration workflows into CI/CD pipelines to increase velocity and reduce friction
• Schema & Data management: Designing infrastructure for safe, large-scale schema and data operations like backfills and purging
• This includes ensuring backfill operations are monitored, retryable, minimally disruptive, and automated to align with schema/data evolution and maintain data integrity
• Your role will be crucial in:
• Quality / delivery: the scalability and reliability of schema and data operations across Databricks’ global footprint
• Driving predictable deployments by architecting robust test harnesses and automation
• Elevating the developer experience by building accessible, resilient tools that make complex migrations feel simple
• Guaranteeing the integrity of both schema and data through safe, efficient backfill strategies

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 12+ years of professional experience in backend systems or platform engineering
• Experience: building platforms, infrastructure, or database engineering, especially with MySQL, TiDB
• Track record of building and scaling mission-critical platforms supporting high-throughput, global services
• Experience: schema migration frameworks, CI/CD automation and developer tooling
• Champion of developer experience, creating clear, reliable, and user-friendly workflows

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 Staff Software Engineer - Databases vacancy is not an offer for reference 7601565002; 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 7601565002.

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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

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