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# Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta

- **Company:** Databricks
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Scrum Methodology, Software Engineering, Apache Spark, Backend, Information Technology, Low Latency, Databricks
- **Published:** May 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f0b465c8fa533837

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Spark?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * 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.
 * BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

## Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our backend team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend systems that power Databricks workspaces. You will build the next-generation platform for serving workspace assets, ensuring high QPS, low latency, reliable, and performant systems, proactively addressing the future growth challenges. Additionally, as a senior member of the team, you will provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers, contributing to the overall improvement of team coding practices and system designs.

The Impact you will have:

 * Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering.
 * Low level systems debugging, performance measurement, and optimization on large production clusters.
 * Build architecture design, influence product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.
 * Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services.
 * 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.
 * Contribute as a technical team lead by mentoring others, lead sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members and participate in project planning.


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