Databricks
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Sr.StaffSoftwareEngineer—Observability,Insights&Governance
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“Sr. Staff Software Engineer — Observability, Insights & Governance at Databricks. Skills: Observability, Governance, Data platforms, AI. Establish long-term technical direction. Own multi-year architecture”
What You'll Achieve.
Move needle on performance; Move needle on reliability; Move needle on cost transparency
Industry & Context.
Investigate telemetry; Diagnose telemetry; Act on insights
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
12+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, Technical leader track record, Deep computer science fundamentals, Experience with observability and telemetry pipelines, Experience with query engines and query analytics, Experience with distributed tracing and metrics, Experience with time-series storage, Experience with data governance, Experience with large-scale logging systems, Cross-functional communication skills, BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
Nice to Have
MS/PhD a plus, Experience building agentic experiences using LLMs
What You'll Do.
Establish long-term technical direction
Own multi-year architecture
Design high-impact projects
Lead high-impact projects
Build next generation of agentic observability
Build next generation of agentic governance
Integrate end-to-end visibility
Integrate end-to-end governance
Mentor senior engineers
Set technical standards
Champion reliable software
Champion high-quality software
Champion operational practices
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Databricks SQL; Partner with Unity Catalog; Partner with AI teams; Partner with security teams; Partner with platform teams; Cross-functional communication
Communication Scope
Cross-functional communication
Full Job Description
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 mission: Query Observability, SQL Warehouse Management, and Account-Level Observability and Governance. Query Observability builds the performance and observability tooling, ingesting very large volumes of query telemetry and turning it into history views, execution plans, performance insights, and recommendations that help customers run workloads reliably at scale. Beyond query observability, you will be responsible for building observability and actionable insights at compute level, workspace level, and account level so that admins can confidently manage large accounts. This is a new technical leadership role responsible for setting the durable architecture across all these surfaces, raising the engineering bar of the combined team, and shaping the next generation of agentic experiences that let users — and the systems they run on — investigate, diagnose, and act on insights across query, warehouse, workspace, and account levels. The Impact You Will Have Establish the long-term technical direction across query observability, warehouse management, and account-level governance, and own the multi-year architecture all three surfaces are built on. Design and lead high-impact projects that move the needle on performance, reliability, and cost transparency for customers. Build the next generation of agentic observability and governance — extensible experiences that let users and automated agents investigate, diagnose, and act on telemetry across query, warehouse, and account. Partner deeply with Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog, AI, security, and platform teams to integrate end-to-end visibility and governance across the data plane and control plane. Mentor senior engineers, set the technical
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