Senior Staff Software Engineer

Salary: CHF 60'000 - 100'000 per year

Requirements:

• 15+ years of industry experience building and supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Extensive experience building and maintaining distributed systems.
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Security-first mindset.
• Cross-org leadership in ambiguous, incident-heavy environments with disciplined rollout and ops maturity.
• Motivated by delivering customer value and impact.
• Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow an engineering team delivering runtime enforcement outcomes in a high-severity, cross-org domain; establish scope, SLAs, and phased roadmaps.
• Establish single-source-of-truth scope, operating model, and durable mechanisms for enforcement.
• Lead multi-year, multi-team initiatives that shape how we enforce Unity Catalog at runtime across compute types and engines.
• Introduce tools to allow greater automation and operability of services.
• Use your deep experience to help prevent and investigate production issues.
• Plan and lead complicated technical projects that work with several teams within the company.
• Contribute as a technical team lead by mentoring others, leading sprint planning, delegating work and assignments to team members, and participating in project planning.

Technologies:

• AI
• Databricks
• Excel
• Security
• Spark
• Unity
• GameDev
• Cloud
• Hardware
• Network
• UX UI Design

More:

We are Databricks, the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide, including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500, rely on our Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics, and AI. We are headquartered in San Francisco with offices around the globe, and we were founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, and MLflow. We offer comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of our employees, and we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel.

last updated 27 week of 2026