Staff Backend Software Engineer- (Databricks AI)
$166k - $225k • Remote • San Francisco, California
Posted 11d ago
Job Location
San Francisco, California
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Categories
AI Infrastructure Engineer
About the job
At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data and AI teams to solve the world's toughest problems by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform. As part of the AI Platform team, you will build the substrate that powers everything from data apps, AI agents, model training, model serving, and vector search. You will 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, and we are building the infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI.
Responsibilities
- Build infrastructure that powers flagship offerings like MLflow, AI Gateway, Databricks Apps, Agent Framework, Agent Bricks, and Foundation Model APIs.
- Improve reliability, latency, and efficiency of distributed AI workloads.
- Collaborate with platform, infra, and ML teams to deliver seamless end-to-end experiences.
- Shape how developers and data scientists build and interact with AI on Databricks.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering.
- Strong programming skills in Scala, Go, or Python.
- Experience with distributed systems, scalable APIs, or cloud-native infrastructure.
- Familiarity with service-oriented architecture, deployment pipelines, and system observability.
- Strong product and ownership mindset.
Benefits
- Eligibility for annual performance bonus
- Equity
- Comprehensive benefits and perks