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# Staff Software Engineer - Database Engine Internals Organization

- **Company:** Databricks
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $192,000.0 - $260,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Artificial Intelligence, Encodings, Cyber Security, Databases, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Security, Data Warehousing, Distributed Systems, Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Software Engineering, Database Engines, Apache Spark, Databricks
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/staff-software-engineer-database-engine-internals-mountain-view-ca--18eb4186-89a6-4b7e-8e73-cb3db7f42555

## About the Role

* A passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, or performance optimization
 * Experience working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables
 * Motivated by delivering customer value and impact
 * 8+ years of experience working in a related system (preferred)
 * Optional: PhD in databases or distributed systems

Pay Range Transparency, Apache Spark, Architectural Services, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, Data Warehousing, Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL), Database Technology, Distributed Computing, Diversity, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Fortune 500 Customers, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), LinkedIn, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Query Optimization, Resource Management, Software Engineering, Total Cost of Ownership, Use Cases, YouTube

## 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 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
 * Vectorized execution engine
 * Data security
 * Resource management
 * Transaction coordination
 * Efficient storage structures (encodings, indexes)
 * Automatic physical data optimization


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