Sr. Staff Software Engineer — Observability, Insights & Governance

What this role involves

This is a senior technical leadership role at Databricks responsible for setting the architecture and strategy for query observability, SQL warehouse management, and account-level governance. The engineer will design and lead projects to improve performance, reliability, and cost transparency, and build next-generation agentic observability and governance experiences.

Skills this posting asks for

• distributed systems
• observability
• governance
• databases
• backend infrastructure
• telemetry pipelines
• query engines
• query analytics
• distributed tracing
• metrics
• time-series storage
• data governance
• large-scale logging
• llms
• agentic experiences
• cross-functional communication
• computer science fundamentals
• algorithms
• data structures
• systems design

Requirements

• 12 years of experience
• Level: staff

From the employer’s posting

RDQ126R35 At Databricks, observability and governance are what turn a massive, multi-tenant data and AI platform into one customers can trust at scale. We are looking for a senior technical leader to drive strategy and execution across three closely related teams at the heart of that miss…