Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Databricks
Berlin, Germany
2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) C++ (Programming Language) Software as a Service Distributed Systems Scala (Programming Language) Service-Oriented Architecture Apache Spark Backend Information Technology

Requirements

Do you have experience in Spark?, * BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field

  • 5+ years of production level experience in one of: Java, Scala, C++, or similar language.
  • Experience developing large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures.
  • Knowledge of SQL.

Benefits & conditions

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees.

About the company

At Databricks, we are passionate about helping data teams solve the world’s toughest problems - from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world’s best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business.

Founded by engineers, Databricks has started a multi-year journey to build the best Lakehouse Platform. For this we are building on top of a great foundation but our goal is to go further to build dramatically better products. We want to revisit every component to provide our customers with the fastest, easiest to use and most secure data platform for all their data workloads.

As a software engineer, you will join as a founding member of not only the Berlin site, but really as a founding team for our multi-year journey to achieve our Lakehouse vision. You will be involved in the entire development cycle and exemplify all core Databricks values.

The impact you’ll have:

Our backend teams span many domains across our essential service platforms. For instance, you might work on challenges such as:

  • Problems that span from product to infrastructure including: distributed systems, at-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration, and developer experience.
  • Build reliable, secure and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends, e.g., AWS S3, GCS, Azure Blob Store.
  • Develop product features that empower our customers to easily store and access their data., Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide - including Comcast, CondĂŠ Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 - rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark , Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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