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# Senior Software Engineer - Database Engine Internals

- **Company:** Databricks
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $166,000.0 - $225,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Encodings, Databases, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Security, Data Warehousing, Distributed Systems, Performance Tuning, Database Engines, Systems Architecture, Apache Spark
- **Published:** May 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2f95b03bcb1a85c7

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Systems architecture within technology?, * 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
 * 5+ years of experience working in a related system (preferred)
 * Optional: PhD in databases or distributed systems

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 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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