Databricks

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Files team to innovate at the intersection of storage, performance, and distributed systems. This role will directly shape the company's filesystem strategy to power next-generation agentic workloads. The Filesystem has emerged as a preferred runtime interface for AI agents, serving as a foundational layer for context, memory management, artifact authoring, version control, sandboxing, and inter-system communication, thereby accelerating AI adoption.

$166k - $225k

Databricks

<h1>Staff Software Engineer - Agent Quality</h1> <h4>P-1567</h4> <p>At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world’s toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world’s best data and AI platform so our customers can focus on the high-value challenges that are central to their own missions.</p> <p>The Databricks AI Research organization is pushing the frontier of next-generation enterprise AI. We believe a company's data is its greatest competitive advantage, and we're building the models and agents that unlock it. Our work spans the full stack, from model training to advanced multi-agent systems.&nbsp;</p> <p>As a Staff Software Engineer - Agent Quality, you will be a founding member of a new team focused on evaluating and continuously improving Databricks' AI Agents. You will design and scale the infrastructure, tooling, and developer workflows that let researchers and engineers evaluate agents rigorously — driving a flywheel where evaluation results feed directly back into agent improvement across the full lifecycle, from development and training to production.</p> <h2>The impact you will have</h2> <ul> <li>Stand up the foundational evaluation infrastructure for Genie Agents, enabling rigorous benchmarking, regression detection, and quality measurement across research and product teams.</li> <li>Build the flywheel that connects evaluation results back into agent improvement — closing the loop between production signals, training, and iterative development.</li> <li>Shape the long-term technical direction for agent quality infrastructure, with real influence over how Databricks measures and improves its first-party agents and agent development platform.</li> <li>Help shape the long-term technical direction for agent quality infrastructure as Databricks expands its first-party agents and agent development platform.</li> </ul> <h2>What we look for</h2> <ul> <li>6+ years industry experience building software systems</li> <li>Strong Python programming skills, with experience building production or research infrastructure</li> <li>Experience building or operating distributed systems, data pipelines, or large-scale infrastructure with a focus on reliability, correctness, and operational maturity</li> <li>Ability to design pragmatic but rigorous systems that produce trustworthy, reproducible signals for complex applications</li> <li>Comfort working across ambiguous research and product boundaries, and partnering with both researchers and engineers to turn ideas into robust internal platforms</li> <li>A high bar for technical quality, strong ownership, and the ability to influence roadmap and execution across multiple teams</li> </ul> <h2>Nice to have</h2> <ul> <li>Experience with devtools, CI/CD platforms, testing frameworks, observability tooling, or benchmarking infrastructure</li> <li>Familiarity with how LLM or agent quality is measured — whether through evals, experimentation platforms, or production monitoring</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Pay Range Transparency</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 14px;">Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles.&nbsp; Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page <a href="https://www.databricks.com/sites/default/files/2024-08/us-pay-zone-mapping.pdf">here</a>.<br></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div><div class="title">Local Pay Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$200,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$265,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>About Databricks</strong></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&amp;T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/databricks">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://x.com/databricks">X</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Databricks">YouTube</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/databricksinc/?hl=en">Instagram</a>.<br><br><strong>Benefits<br><br></strong></span>At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/154un3e8Xav4BceOSlcYFZRGEuQI54xMxVydRwQn54eQ/edit?usp=sharing">here</a>.<br><br></p> <p><strong>Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion</strong></p> <p>At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.</p> <p><strong>Compliance</strong></p> <p><strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.</span></strong></p></div>

$200k - $265k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack to join a new, nimble team in their NYC office. This role will be instrumental in building new AI products from the ground up, leveraging Databricks' data and AI infrastructure to create vertical AI applications for both technical and business users. This is a unique opportunity to experience a 0-to-1 environment, combining startup excitement with the resources of a leading tech company.

$191k - $254k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to join the Ingestion Core Team. This team is responsible for making data ingestion simple, reliable, and efficient for all data types, including structured and unstructured. The role involves building distributed platform systems to incrementally ingest high-volume, petabyte-scale data from diverse sources into Delta Lake, ensuring schema evolution and change data capture. You will contribute to simplifying complex data challenges and empowering customers with analytics and machine learning tools.

$166k - $225k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect and deliver the company's AI-native vertical workflow platform, Customer Experience Intelligence (CXI). This platform is designed to orchestrate AI agents, humans, and enterprise tools into end-to-end operational workflows, initially focusing on customer support and expanding to domains like IT, Security, Legal, and Marketing. The role involves building a scalable, multi-tenant agent platform with a strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and enterprise-grade features.

$164k - $226k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Staff Technical Lead for Customer Experience Intelligence (CXI) to architect and deliver an AI-native vertical workflow platform. This platform will orchestrate AI agents, humans, and enterprise tools into end-to-end operational workflows, initially focusing on customer support and expanding to other domains like IT, Security, Legal, and Marketing. The role involves driving rapid backend development with a focus on quality, safety, and reliability, designing state-machine and agentic workflows, and implementing robust observability and rollback mechanisms for AI-driven decisions. The Technical Lead will also act as a liaison between CXI, Product, Platform Engineering, and business stakeholders, while mentoring engineers and subject matter experts.

$190k - $261k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Staff Engineer to join the Customer Engagement and Docs platform team, focusing on enhancing customer support through AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). This role operates at the intersection of Product development and Machine Learning, aiming to help customers resolve issues faster by providing precise solutions or facilitating seamless escalations. You will gain a deep understanding of user behavior, identify problem drivers, and leverage ML and LLMs to analyze complex technical use cases within an enterprise environment, ultimately guiding them towards resolution.

$190k - $260k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their AI Research Infrastructure team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and operating the research stack that powers Databricks' AI research efforts. You will design and build services for scheduling, orchestrating, and observing large-scale training and inference experiment workloads across thousands of GPUs. Your work will involve improving developer tooling to ensure researchers can iterate quickly while maintaining reliability, efficiency, and security. You will collaborate closely with research scientists, ML engineers, and platform teams to transform experimental workloads into robust, repeatable pipelines and push the boundaries of the infrastructure's capabilities.

$199k - $270k

Databricks

The Web Platform team at Databricks is rebuilding the public-facing web experiences from the ground up, making them AI-native from the start and pioneering an agentic SDLC. As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you will own the platform layer that others build upon, including the web framework, design system, CMS, infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, AI-enabled translation, and SDLC agents. This is a unique opportunity to shape the architecture of a web platform for an AI-native world, partnering with technical leaders and setting the standard for AI-native platform engineering.

$198k - $273k

Databricks

The Web Engineering team at Databricks builds and owns the public-facing web experiences that represent Databricks to the world. We are rebuilding the platform from the ground up, AI native from the start, and pioneering an agentic SDLC as our operating model. As Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Agents on the Web Engineering team, you will own the architecture and delivery of agents that transform how Databricks creates, publishes, and ships for the web, shifting content operations from a linear, engineering-dependent process to an orchestrated, continuously improving system. You will define how LLM-powered agents participate reliably across marketing content workflows, set the engineering standards the team builds on, and ensure agent output is robust, observable, and production-ready at scale.

$198k - $273k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking an engineer to help lead the development of the data and agent layer for enterprise digital advertising. This role involves building solutions to address the significant data and intelligence gaps in advertising campaign performance, which currently relies on slow, manual, and often inaccurate processes. You will be instrumental in creating systems that ingest, normalize, aggregate, and analyze advertising data at scale, enabling better decision-making and optimization for enterprises spending billions on digital ads.

$191k - $254k

Databricks

The Applied AI team at Databricks is at the forefront of advancing GenAI-powered products, having launched Databricks Assistant, AI/BI Genie, and Agent Bricks. These products are used by hundreds of thousands of users daily, tackling challenging problems like code suggestion, text-to-sql generation, and knowledge QA. As GenAI products evolve, we are seeking engineers to drive the next phase of development, focusing on enhancing LLM quality, expanding GenAI capabilities, and strengthening platform architecture for AI interactions at scale.

$190k - $285k

Databricks

The Agentic Applications team at Databricks is transforming how the business operates by building resilient, in-house platforms and AI-powered capabilities to provide a competitive advantage. As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you will be instrumental in delivering end-to-end applications that power the business and empower employees with assistive technologies. You will define the technical roadmap, design critical software systems, elevate engineering excellence, mentor junior engineers, and solve the most challenging technical issues, acting as the technical leader for the team.

$192k - $260k

Databricks

Databricks is transforming how it builds and operates People Technology, moving from traditional SaaS configuration toward an AI-native, agentic stack. You will be the technical anchor of the People Tech pod, driving the architectural shift from workflow automation to autonomous, multi-agent systems that power HR, recruiting, workforce analytics, and employee experience at scale. This is a rare opportunity to reimagine a critical enterprise domain from the ground up using the very data and AI platform Databricks sells to the world.

$192k - $260k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Staff Backline Engineer to join their critical bridge team between Frontline Support and Engineering. This role focuses on handling complex technical issues and escalations within the Data and AI ecosystem, with a strong emphasis on customer success and proactive issue resolution. The engineer will be a technical expert and escalation point for challenging ML/AI issues, working collaboratively with Support, Engineering, Product, and customers to troubleshoot, identify root causes, and drive resolutions. The team prioritizes automation and tooling to enhance troubleshooting efficiency and improve platform supportability.

$0k - $0k

Databricks

The Agentic Applications team at Databricks is building resilient, in-house platforms and AI-powered capabilities to drive business transformation and competitive advantage. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will be instrumental in delivering end-to-end applications that empower employees with assistive technologies. Your role will involve defining the technical roadmap, designing critical software systems, mentoring junior engineers, and resolving complex technical challenges, acting as the technical leader for the team.

$192k - $260k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Backend Software Engineer for its Customer Experience Intelligence (CXI) team. This role will involve architecting and delivering Databricks' AI-native vertical workflow platform, which orchestrates AI agents, humans, and enterprise tools into end-to-end operational workflows. The platform is initially focused on customer support but is designed to expand into other domains like IT, Security, Legal, and Marketing, with a roadmap for broader productization. You will contribute to the technical vision, core infrastructure, and backend architecture for an enterprise agentic framework, ensuring reliability, scalability, and enterprise-grade observability for AI-driven systems.

$164k - $226k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to architect and deliver the company's AI-native vertical workflow platform. This role involves building intelligent systems that orchestrate AI agents, humans, and enterprise tools into end-to-end operational workflows, starting with customer support and expanding to other domains like IT, Security, Legal, and Marketing. The goal is to create a scalable, reliable, and observable platform for AI-driven business decisions.

$164k - $226k

Databricks

At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data and AI teams to solve the world's toughest problems. We build and run the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform. As part of the AI Platform team, you'll build the substrate that powers everything from data apps, AI agents, model training, model serving, and vector search. You'll be joining a high-agency, high-visibility team operating at the frontier of AI infrastructure with deep ties to research, product, and real-world enterprise use cases. Databricks Mosaic AI is one of our fastest-growing businesses helping thousands of our customers democratize AI within their organizations. We’re building the infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI.

$165k - $220k

Databricks

At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform. We are looking for engineers who are customer obsessed and can take on the full scope of the product and user experience beyond technical implementation. You will set the foundation for how we build robust, scalable, and delightful products, creating experiences for our customers across the full project lifecycle from loading data, visualizing results, creating statistical models, and deploying as production artifacts.

$192k - $260k