Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Vector Search

Requirements

• 15+ years industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
• Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction.

What You'll Be Doing

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering.
• Deliver a highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers.
• Low level systems debugging, performance measurement & optimization on large production clusters.
• Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.
• Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.
• Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
• A strong influencer or driver in the organization’s roadmap and direction.
• Lead a TLG or similar review committee, or initiate and sustain an org/eng-wide initiative driven by engineering needs.
• Break down complex problems quickly into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, and de-risk (through prototyping/validation).
• Contribute as a Technical Team Lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.

Nice to Haves

• N/A

Perks and Benefits

• Zone 1 Pay Range: $228,400 - $328,600 USD
• About Databricks: Databricks is the data and AI company, headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
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