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# Staff Software Engineer - Access Management

- **Company:** Databricks
- **Location:** Bellevue, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,500.0 - $203,025.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Distributed Systems, Identity and Access Management, Role-Based Access Control, Backend, Databricks
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=43804818c5b1e308

## About the Role

* Deep expertise in access management, identity, or authorization systems.
 * Strong distributed systems and security fundamentals.
 * Demonstrated technical leadership on a team, ideally across multiple locations.
 * Track record of designing and shipping backend services at scale.

## Description

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Access Management team at Databricks, based in Bellevue, WA. Access Management owns the access-gating systems at the core of the Databricks platform - the services that decide, for every user, application, and automated workload, what they are permitted to do. You will set technical direction for the Bellevue engineers and partner with our Mountain View technical lead on a team distributed across both sites.

What you'll work on:

 * Evolving the platform's core authorization service - the system is on the critical path of every access-control decision.
 * Migrating and consolidating permission-checking across the platform onto a unified authorization model.
 * Building fine-grained access controls: scoped service identities, delegated access, and role-based access control.
 * Network ingress access policy for customer resources.
 * Raising the availability and reliability of a high-throughput, low-latency authorization service.


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