Staff Research Engineer Jobs

P-375 We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Databricks' Engineering team reporting to an Engineering Leader. You will be part of the Databricks engineering organization, working with teams that develop Databricks products and features for thousands of enterprises worldwide. Key Characteristics As an executive engineering individual contributor at Databricks, you will have full ownership of the product or infrastructure direction in a major area, driving it from initial development to scalable solutions with clear business impact. You will serve as a force multiplier by elevating stability, reliability, and organizational processes, while bringing deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems. You will mentor senior engineers, contribute to recruiting, and lead high-impact company projects, often tackling complex problems beyond their comfort zone. Job Description 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 infrastructure platform, so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are central to their own missions. Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We develop and operate one of the largest scale software platforms. The fleet consists of millions of virtual machines, generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day. At our scale, we regularly observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above. The Impact you will have: Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering. Deliver a highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant engine processing hundreds of TB of data daily across thousands of customers Low level systems debugging, performance measurement & opti

P-1345 You will be the Product Manager for the Databricks Runtime team in Berlin . The team works at the intersection of query processing, storage, infrastructure and data governance, all key components of the Databricks data intelligence platform. As the Product Manager, you will develop a deep understanding of modern cloud infrastructure, data governance solutions, and open source components, and gather requirements from customers. You will launch features that will impact how customers process petabytes of data every day and make it simpler for them to draw value from their data. This role requires coordinating all product activities from vision to implementation, including engaging customers to understand their needs, developing long-term product strategy, defining product roadmaps, working with engineering to build those products, and coordinating with various internal stakeholders (both pre- and post-launch) to ensure product success. The impact you will have: Own the end-to-end product management process Gather customer requirements, design features and collaborate with engineering to deliver a polished market-ready product Drive launches with product marketing through blog posts, release notes, webinars Define and measure OKRs for your products Drive the prioritization and development of features, measurably making it simpler and more cost effective for customers to govern and process petabytes of data. What we look for: 6+ yrs of experience Bachelors degree in Computer Science or similar field Experience in Product Management (inbound, outbound, cross-functional processes) Technical skills Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) Strong data analysis and operationalization skills (SQL, rollups, building operational dashboards) About Databricks Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on

P-1345 You will be the Product Manager for the Databricks Runtime team in Amsterdam. The team works at the intersection of query processing, storage, infrastructure and data governance, all key components of the Databricks data intelligence platform. As the Product Manager, you will develop a deep understanding of modern cloud infrastructure, data governance solutions, and open source components, and gather requirements from customers. You will launch features that will impact how customers process petabytes of data every day and make it simpler for them to draw value from their data. This role requires coordinating all product activities from vision to implementation, including engaging customers to understand their needs, developing long-term product strategy, defining product roadmaps, working with engineering to build those products, and coordinating with various internal stakeholders (both pre- and post-launch) to ensure product success. The impact you will have: Own the end-to-end product management process Gather customer requirements, design features and collaborate with engineering to deliver a polished market-ready product Drive launches with product marketing through blog posts, release notes, webinars Define and measure OKRs for your products Drive the prioritization and development of features, measurably reducing the cost and time needed for operating ETL and machine learning workflows. What we look for: 6+ yrs of experience Bachelors degree in Computer Science or similar field Experience in Product Management (inbound, outbound, cross-functional processes) Technical skills Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure) Strong data analysis and operationalization skills (SQL, rollups, building operational dashboards) About Databricks Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks

P-1346 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to 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 — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. Databricks Mosaic AI offers a unique data-centric approach to building enterprise-quality, Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions, enabling organizations to securely and cost-effectively own and host ML and Generative AI models, augmented or trained with their enterprise data. And we're only getting started in Bengaluru , India - and currently in the process of setting up 14 new teams from scratch ! As a Staff Software Engineer at Databricks India, you can get to work across : - Backend (Infrastructure) The impact you'll have: Our Infrastructure 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. Deliver reliable and high performance services and client libraries for storing and accessing humongous amount of data on cloud storage backends, e.g., AWS S3, Azure Blob Store. Build reliable, scalable services, e.g. Scala, Kubernetes, and data pipelines, e.g. Apache Spark™, Databricks, to power the pricing infrastructure that serves millions of cluster-hours per day and develop product features that empower customers to easily view and control platform usage. What we look for

P-1347 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to 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. Networking Infrastructure is a core part of the platform that powers all our data and AI products. The platform also powers key enterprise security features used by customers across all our products to build connectivity solutions to cloud resources and prevent data exfiltration. And we're setting up the team from scratch in Bengaluru , India. We are seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineers with a networking background to join the Networking Infrastructure team. As one of the seed members of the Bangalore site, you will be focussing on building new backend connectivity services that powers millions of VMs running on Databricks. You will also be leading the design and development of new services that powers the connectivity between our control plane and compute plane. This new platform enables Databricks to increase scalability of our compute plane while also efficiently use cloud resources. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, operations, and other engineering teams, to ensure the delivery of robust, scalable, and efficient networking systems. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about solving novel multi-cloud and distributed systems challenges. What we look for: 12+ years of production level experience in one of: Python, Java, Scala, C++, or similar language 7+ years of experience developing large-scale distributed system s from scratch Experience working on a SaaS platform or with Service-Oriented Architectures. Extensive experience working in the Networking dom

P-1344 As a software engineer with a backend focus, you will work with your team to build infrastructure for the Databricks platform at scale. The impact you'll have: Our backend teams cover a diverse range of domains, from core compute fabric resource management to service platforms and machine learning infrastructure. For example, you might work on challenges such as: Supporting Databricks' growth by building foundational infrastructure platforms that enable seamless operation across numerous geographic regions and cloud providers. Implementing cloud-agnostic infrastructure abstractions to help Databricks engineers more efficiently manage and operate their services. Develop tools and processes that drive engineering efficiency at Databricks. We enhance the developer experience for Databricks engineers across various areas, including programming languages, linters, static analysis, IDEs, remote development environments, automated release pipelines, and test automation frameworks. Our current focus is on optimizing the Rust development experience across the organization. What we look for: 8+ years of professional software development experience. Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience. Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Java, Scala, or Go. Hands-on experience in developing and operating large-scale, critical distributed backend systems. Demonstrated leadership throughout all project phases, from inception and design to implementation and operations, with a strong ability to drive architectural decisions and guide teams through complex challenges. Experience mentoring engineers, influencing best practices, and fostering a collaborative engineering environment. Self-driven and passionate with a strong focus on delivering impact through team collaboration. Strong written and verbal communication skills to drive alignment across teams, and contribute to both technical documentation and strategic decisi

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. Tenstorrent is seeking talented Physical Design Engineers to implement high-performance blocks for our industry-leading CPU and AI/ML architectures. You'll own the complete implementation flow from synthesis to tapeout, working alongside world-class engineers to push the boundaries of performance, power, and area. If you're passionate about crafting silicon that powers the future of AI computing and thrive on solving complex design challenges, we want you on our team. This role is hybrid , based out of Austin, TX, Santa Clara, CA or Fort Collins, CO. We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who You Are A hands-on engineer with deep expertise in SOC/ASIC physical design and a track record of successful tapeouts. Passionate about optimizing PPA through innovative implementation techniques and close RTL collaboration. Strong problem solver who excels at debugging complex issues across design hierarchies. Collaborative team player who thrives in fast-paced, technically challenging environments. What We Need BS/MS/PhD in EE/ECE/CE/CS with proven experience in synthesis, PnR, and timing closure on taped-out designs. Expertise with industry-

P-375 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to 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 — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to tackle technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And we're only getting started. As a Staff Software Engineer working on the Data Platform team, you will leverage bleeding-edge AI developer tools and techniques to help build the Data Intelligence Platform for Databricks that will allow us to automate decision-making across the entire company. You will achieve this in collaboration with Databricks Product Teams, Data Science, and many more. You will define the future of a variety of tools spanning logging, orchestration, data transformation, metric store, governance platforms, and data consumption layers, just to name a few. The impact you will have: Design and run the cross-company Data Intelligence Platform, which contains every business and product metric used to run Databricks. You’ll play a key role in developing the right balance of data protection and ease of shareability for the Data Intelligence Platform as we transition to a public company. Develop tooling and infrastructure to efficiently manage and run Databricks on Databricks at scale, across multiple clouds, geographies, and deployment types. This includes CI/CD processes, test frameworks for pipelines and data quality, and infrastructure-as-code tooling. Partner with our engineering teams to provide leadership in developing the long-term vision and requirements for the Databricks product. Build reliable data pipelines and solve data p

P-375 At Databricks, we build powerful infrastructure that accelerates innovation and enables data teams to deliver with confidence and scale. Our unified schema migration platform underpins automated, observable, and developer-friendly workflows—ensuring Databricks can continue evolving rapidly across thousands of databases and 60+ mission-critical services. What You’ll Do As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll lead the design, development, and reliability of our global platform that manages schema and data changes at scale: Schema Migration Platform: Architecting and maintaining automated schema change infrastructure for MySQL and TiDB, while implementing versioning, rollback, validation, and auditing for safe, predictable, and fast migrations. Scale, Reliability & Test Harness: Ensuring the platform operates across thousands of global databases with zero downtime, enhancing resilience, observability, and recovery, and building a test harness for migration and deployment validation. Developer Experience & CI/CD Integration: Designing intuitive tools and APIs for seamless schema and data change management, and embedding migration workflows into CI/CD pipelines to increase velocity and reduce friction. Schema & Data management: Designing infrastructure for safe, large-scale schema and data operations like backfills and purging. This includes ensuring backfill operations are monitored, retryable, minimally disruptive, and automated to align with schema/data evolution and maintain data integrity. Your role will be crucial in: Ensuring the scalability and reliability of schema and data operations across Databricks’ global footprint. Driving predictable deployments by architecting robust test harnesses and automation. Elevating the developer experience by building accessible, resilient tools that make complex migrations feel simple. Guaranteeing the integrity of both schema and data through safe, efficient backfill strategies. What we look for: 12+

About the Team Data is at the foundation of DoorDash success. The Data Engineering team builds database solutions for various use cases including reporting, product analytics, marketing optimization and fi nancial reporting. Team serves as the foundation for decision-making at DoorDash. About the Role DoorDash is looking for a Sta ff Software Engineer,Data to be a technical lead and help architect and scale our data reliability, data infrastructure, automation and tools to meet growing business needs. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will... Own critical data systems that support multiple products/teams Develop, implement and enforce best practices for data infrastructure and automation Design, develop and implement large scale, high volume, high performance data models and pipelines for Data Lake and Data Warehouse Improve the reliability and scalability of our Ingestion, data processing, ETLs, Reporting tools and data ecosystem services Manage a portfolio of data products that deliver high-quality, trustworthy data Help onboard and support other engineers as they join the team We’re excited about you because... 8+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer and technical leader leading multiple projects 6+ years experience working in data platform and data engineering or a similar role You have proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in the full software development lifecycle, including designing, generating code, testing, monitoring and releasing software Pro fi ciency in programming languages such as Python/Kotlin/Scala 4+ years of experience in ETL orchestration and work fl ow management tools like Air fl ow Expert in database fundamentals, SQL, data reliability practices and distributed computing 4+ years of experience with the Distributed data/similar ecosystem (Spark, Presto) and streaming technologies such as Kaa/Flink/Spark Streaming Excellent communication skills and experience working

Pulse have recently partnered with a leading healthcare provider. We are currently looking for an experienced Oncology Staff Nurse who can provide overall support for the clinical leadership for the service. This post is based in Manchester, which is easily accessible via public transport. About the role: As a Staff Nurse, you will be working in a clinical and service development capacity to ensure the service to patients is planned, delivered, and evaluated in line with evidence-based practice. Working closely with the multi-disciplinary team to help create and maintain a robust service whilst seamlessly incorporating other centre services. What’s in it for you as a Oncology Staff nurse: 25 days holiday each year (plus bank holidays) increasing with service, with option to buy or sell leave to suit you Private Healthcare Insurance for treatment at our leading hospitals Private pension contribution which increases with length of service Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work scheme Group Life Assurance from day one Critical illness cover Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay Corporate staff discount for all facilities including Maternity packages at The Portland Comprehensive range of flexible health, protection and lifestyle benefits to suit you Discounts with over 800 major retailers Your main responsibilities as a Oncology Staff Nurse: Support the experienced nursing team to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate high standards of specialist care to ensure that patients are cared for in a safe, caring and comfortable environment. This will include meeting their medical, physical and emotional needs by effectively communicating with the patient and their families. What we are looking for in a Oncology Staff Nurse: NMC Registered nurse NHS or Private Hospital experience Significant post registration experience within haematology setting What we can offer: Generous welcome bonus 25 days annual leave plus options to buy and sel

P-940 (Position Location is open to both our Seattle & Bellevue offices.) 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 infrastructure platform, so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are central to their own missions. Founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, Databricks has grown from a tiny corner office in Berkeley, California to a global organization with over 1000 employees. Thousands of organizations, from small to Fortune 100, trust Databricks with their mission-critical workloads, making us one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in the world. Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We constantly push the boundaries of data and AI technology, while simultaneously operating with the resilience, security and scale that is critical to making customers successful on our platform. We develop and operate one of the largest scale software platforms. The fleet consists of millions of virtual machines, generating terabytes of logs and processing exabytes of data per day. At our scale, we regularly observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above. As a software engineer with a backend focus, you will work closely with your team and product management to prioritize, design, implement, test, and operate micro-services for the Databricks platform and product. This implies, among others, writing software in Scala/Java, building data pipelines (Apache Spark, Apache Kafka), integrating with third-party applications, and interacting with cloud APIs (AWS, Azure, CloudFormation, Terraform). Below are some example teams you can join: Data Science and Machine Learning Infrastructure: Build services and infrastructure

P-1016 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. To achieve our mission, we strive to radically simplify the experience of our users as they undertake complex data management projects, while ensuring that we protect their data with the highest standards of security. In this role, you will lead all aspects of data security for the Databricks Lakehouse platform. You will drive the product strategy to identify, prioritize and deliver both the external and internal controls necessary for customers to meet their privacy, confidentiality, digital sovereignty and other regulatory obligations. You will create elegant yet simple policy models that enable customers to control access to their most important assets. Your work will help IT and security administrators feel at ease with increasing Databricks usage in their organization. Our data champions will benefit from the data security and operational simplicity you provide, to ensure that they can focus their time on creating most value for their users. You will report to a Senior Director of Product management. The impact you will have: Make security a market differentiator that enables Databricks to succeed in enterprise and regulated industries. Help Databricks gain the trust of CSO teams of security sensitive customers and qualify the Lakehouse platform for all data classes in the customer organization. Build a vision for a best-in-class network and data security policy model that provides secure access to customer workloads and data while minimizing exposure to unauthorized access and risk of data loss. Partner with privacy, legal, and security teams to deliver anonymization, retention, and residency

P-1016 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. To achieve our mission, we strive to radically simplify the experience of our users as they undertake complex data management projects, while ensuring that we protect their data with the highest standards of security. In this role, you will lead all aspects of data security for the Databricks Lakehouse platform. You will drive the product strategy to identify, prioritize and deliver both the external and internal controls necessary for customers to meet their privacy, confidentiality, digital sovereignty and other regulatory obligations. You will create elegant yet simple policy models that enable customers to control access to their most important assets. Your work will help IT and security administrators feel at ease with increasing Databricks usage in their organization. Our data champions will benefit from the data security and operational simplicity you provide, to ensure that they can focus their time on creating most value for their users. You will report to a Senior Director of Product management. The impact you will have: Make security a market differentiator that enables Databricks to succeed in enterprise and regulated industries. Help Databricks gain the trust of CSO teams of security sensitive customers and qualify the Lakehouse platform for all data classes in the customer organization. Build a vision for a best-in-class network and data security policy model that provides secure access to customer workloads and data while minimizing exposure to unauthorized access and risk of data loss. Partner with privacy, legal, and security teams to deliver anonymization, retention, and residency

Staff Software Engineer - Money Team P-940 At Databricks, we are obsessed with Data + AI 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 infrastructure platform, so our customers can focus on the high-value challenges that are central to their missions. Founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark™, Databricks has grown from a tiny corner office in Berkeley, CA to a global organization with over 6500 employees. Thousands of organizations, from small to Fortune 100, trust Databricks with their mission-critical workloads, making us one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the world. The Money team's mission at Databricks is to maximize the value that our customers derive from their investments in data projects. We accomplish this through innovative commercialization strategies and cutting-edge engineering. Our team ensures timely, accurate, and customizable billing and usage data, alongside budgeting, forecasting, and cost optimization tools. We provide a seamless and consistent billing experience for all our customers, whether they are large enterprises or individual developers, across different pricing plans and cloud providers (AWS, GCP & Azure). As a software engineer on the Money team, you will be closely involved in the entire billing process, including usage ingestion, metering, pricing, credits, promotions, payments, usage reporting, and cost center and budgeting. Your role is crucial in democratizing data by bringing Databricks products to market. By collaborating with marketing, product teams, commercialization experts, data scientists, IT, and customer support, you will standardize billing experiences across major cloud providers, offering our customers a unified "sky computation" experience. This role involves utilizing the latest Databricks products and tools within the ecosystem. The impact you