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# Sr. software engineer - storage i/o

- **Company:** Databricks
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Data Analysis, Big Data, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Storage, Databases, Distributed Systems, Apache Hadoop, Machine Learning, SQL Databases, Rollup, Apache Spark, Information Technology, Databricks
- **Published:** October 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://nl.talent.com/redirect?id=640658617454560038&source=vacant&utm_medium=xml&utm_campaign=marketing&utm_product=vacantnew_bulk&oapply=org_v2026-10&puid=edaaaddcddagaddabddb9dd8eddaaddfada9bddc9ddb9ddcbddbaddabdagaddgcddd9dd8bea3addffddgaed2dddgaddgfddgaddgaddg9ddg6ed3gc9bbb9b3bee3ee33def3de93de73dedgddfgddffddb3de83debgdd83ee33de93deg3ee33ee33deg3ee33ee33ee33ee33ee33ee3&pos=4&xml_batch_generation_id=8d29e920-64b7-452c-bd97-ee32872d2f29&falcon=1&pid=7c789645bd88&bpid=cb2ffe7d2e3356a0f855df1f9e7af6dc

## About the Role

* BS (or higher) in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
 * Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
 * Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
 * 5+ years of production level experience in either Java, Scala or C++.
 * Experience with low level systems (OS, network stacks, CPU optimizations).
 * Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
 * Experience with distributed systems, databases, and big data systems (Apache Spark, Hadoop).

## Description

Modern data analysis employs sophisticated methods such as machine learning that go well beyond the roll-up and drill-down capabilities of traditional SQL query engines and require speed and reliability. As a software engineer on the Storage and IO team at Databricks, you will be building the next generation of our cloud storage I/O platform supporting fast and reliable reads and writes against cloud storage systems. This specialized and highly optimized platform boosts the performance and reliability of the query processing system so it can outperform even specialized query engines.