Sr. Software Engineer - Observability

Databricks

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Bengaluru, India First seen 3 weeks, 1 day ago Last seen 8 hours, 8 minutes ago Greenhouse

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• Develop observability solutions including logging, metrics, and tracing infrastructure to monitor health and performance across Databricks' massive platform of millions of VMs processing exabytes of data daily. • Establish observability standards, build tooling for efficient metric emission and aggregation, and create dashboards and alerting systems used by engineering teams across the company. • Requires BS in Computer Science or related field plus 7+ years of production experience in Python, Java, Scala, C++, or similar languages with large-scale distributed systems background. • Participate in on-call rotations, optimize observability costs through system analysis and resource right-sizing, and contribute to technical roadmap execution to ensure platform scalability and reliability. • Join a customer-obsessed engineering team at a market-leading data and AI company trusted by 10,000+ organizations including 50% of the Fortune 500.

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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.

Our engineering teams build technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We always push the boundaries of data and AI technology, while simultaneously operating with the security and scale that is important 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 observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above.

As a Senior Software engineer in the Observability team, you will develop observability solutions that provide insights into the health and performance of our products and infrastructure.

The impact you'll have:

Establish standards for logging, metrics, and tracing.
You will collaborate with different teams to identify metrics that allow engineers to observe how well the system and different subcomponents are performing.
You will build tooling and infrastructure to allow components to efficiently emit, aggregate, and store metrics that can be displayed on dashboards and used for alerting.
Ensure the scalability, performance, and reliability of systems by contributing to and executing the technical roadmap.
Participate in on-call rotations and reduce incident response times to maintain operational excellence.
Optimize platform and infrastructure by analyzing system expenses, enhancing visibility, promoting mindful usage, enforcing retention policies, streamlining queries, and right-sizing resources to reduce observability costs.

What we look for:

BS (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field.
7+ years of production-level experience in one of: Python, Java, Scala, C++, or similar languages.
Experience in software development in large-scale distributed systems.
Familiarity with metrics collection, health monitoring, and observability tools

About Databricks

Databricks is 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 the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

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Job Information

Company:
Databricks
Location:
Bengaluru, India
Job Type:
Full-Time
Experience Level:
Senior
Source:
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Status:
Active

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