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# Senior Software Engineer - Database Engine Internals

- **Company:** Databricks
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $166,000.0 - $225,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Security, Data Warehousing, Database Engines, Apache Spark
- **Published:** May 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/us/en/find-jobs-in-United-States/-290ACAFB1CED87FE93/

## About the Role

* Experience working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
 * Motivated by delivering customer value and impact
 * 5+ years of experience working in a related system (preferred)

Pay Range Transparency

## Description

A critical part of realizing this vision is the next generation (decoupled) query engine and structured storage system that can outperform specialized data warehouses in relational query performance, yet retain the expressiveness and flexibility of general purpose systems such as Apache Spark to support diverse workloads ranging from ETL to data science.

As part of this team, you will be working in one or more of the following areas to design and implement these next-gen systems that leapfrog state-of-the-art:

 * Query compilation and optimization
 * Distributed query execution and scheduling
 * Data security
 * Resource management
 * Transaction coordination
 * Automatic physical data optimization


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