Databricks Jobs & Hiring Trends

Databricks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Search Quality to drive the technical direction of ranking, relevance, evaluation, and retrieval systems across their platform. In this role, you will design production-ready ranking models, build low-latency evaluation frameworks, and advance multimodal search capabilities. You will also mentor engineers and collaborate across research, product, and infrastructure teams to shape the future of search-driven AI products.

Databricks is seeking a Staff Product Manager to lead the strategy for Serverless Workspaces and redefine the customer onboarding experience. The role focuses on abstracting complex cloud infrastructure setup to deliver instant, secure, and fully governed Databricks environments.

Databricks is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain the infrastructure stack powering Databricks AI Research. The role involves building services that schedule, orchestrate, and monitor large-scale AI training and inference workloads across GPU fleets. You will collaborate with research scientists and ML engineers to optimize research developer productivity and turn experimental workloads into robust pipelines.

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer to drive long-term technical architecture and strategy across Query Observability, SQL Warehouse Management, and Account-Level Observability and Governance. In this role, you will build next-generation agentic observability experiences using LLMs, design high-throughput telemetry pipelines, and mentor senior engineering talent across the group.

Databricks is seeking a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer to build and scale its Data Intelligence Platform. In this role, you will work closely with product management to design end-to-end user experiences, data visualizations, and workflows for complex data projects. You will set the foundation for scalable products spanning UI architecture to large-scale distributed backend systems.

Databricks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and implement next-generation query engines and structured storage systems for its Lakehouse platform. In this role, you will work on areas such as query optimization, distributed execution, vectorized engines, and efficient storage structures. The position focuses on building unified platforms that combine data warehousing and advanced analytics.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Runtime team at Databricks, you will build next-generation distributed data storage and processing systems capable of scaling to massive workloads. You will work on core platform technologies and projects such as Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and query engines. This role involves developing software that operates reliably across millions of virtual machines and exabytes of data.

Databricks is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the Runtime team in building next-generation distributed data storage and processing systems. The role involves developing scalable infrastructure and query execution engines that power diverse data workloads from ETL to data science. Key project areas include Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Data Plane Storage, and Performance Engineering.

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to collaborate with federal government customers to design, build, and productionize data and AI solutions. In this role, you will lead technical architecture, implement end-to-end data engineering and ML/AI systems, and embed with customer teams. This is a hybrid role requiring 20-25% travel to client sites.

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Product Manager to define and drive the product strategy for generative AI, AI agents, and advanced enterprise workloads. In this role, you will partner closely with research and engineering teams to transform cutting-edge AI advancements into trusted, scalable products.

Databricks is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead strategy and delivery for its newly formed People Pod within the IT organization. In this role, you will lead a zero-to-one initiative to build intelligent, agentic automation workflows on top of the Databricks platform to simplify internal employee and manager experience tools. You will partner cross-functionally with engineering, design, and People Operations to transform standard HR processes into optimized, automated experiences.

Databricks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of high-performance GPU kernels for their GenAI inference stack. The role involves driving the kernel-level performance roadmap, optimizing compute paths across hardware backends, and mentoring engineers. Candidates will collaborate with ML researchers and systems engineers to advance state-of-the-art inference performance at scale.

Databricks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Money Team to design and manage billing, usage, and commercialization systems across major cloud providers. In this role, you will develop pricing primitives, leverage AI and LLMs for cost insights, and manage high-scale distributed services and data pipelines. You will also provide technical leadership and collaborate across teams to unify the customer billing experience.

Databricks is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale the platform layer powering its public web experiences. In this role, you will build CI/CD pipelines, integrate automated accessibility testing, and establish consent management infrastructure within an AI native software development lifecycle.

The Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) works directly with customers to build and productionize solutions to their data and AI challenges using the Databricks platform. In this hands-on role, you will lead architectural decisions, build reference architectures, and deploy end-to-end data pipelines and ML/AI applications. The position involves embedding with client teams to drive adoption, translate business needs into technical solutions, and scale impact across accounts.

The Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer works directly with customers to build, architect, and deploy end-to-end data and AI solutions using the Databricks platform. This hands-on role combines data engineering, AI integration, and technical project delivery to drive transformational outcomes for clients. The position requires embedding with customer teams and involves 20% travel.

Databricks is seeking a Strategic Enterprise Account Executive to drive go-to-market campaigns and expand its footprint in Fortune 500 Telco accounts. In this role, you will build strategic relationships with CIOs and IT executives, utilizing a solution-based approach to promote the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. You will manage a focused set of enterprise accounts to exceed activity, pipeline, and revenue targets.

The Sr. Delivery Partner Manager, FDE at Databricks oversees the Delivery Partner Program to co-deliver services engagements with key system integrators. The role involves building partner relationships, driving delivery governance, managing partner enablement and pipeline, and supporting commercial negotiations.

Databricks is seeking a Senior Counsel, Regulatory to join its Corporate Legal team and build a cross-functional regulatory practice. The role serves as the primary internal subject matter expert on emerging global regulatory frameworks outside privacy and export controls, such as DORA, NIS-2, and the EU AI Act. The position involves collaborating with engineering, product, and commercial legal teams to embed compliance into platform architecture and accelerate deal velocity.

Databricks is seeking a Lakebase Associate Director Specialist to help customers modernize their operational data foundation with Databricks Lakebase. Sitting within the Go-To-Market team, this role partners with regional Account Executives to drive adoption and new revenue across strategic accounts. Responsibilities include running complex sales cycles, orchestrating proof-of-value engagements, and positioning fully-managed Postgres for intelligent applications.

Databricks is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Money Team to design and manage billing, metering, pricing, and cost optimization systems across major cloud providers. In this role, you will build and scale reliable distributed services and data pipelines while leveraging AI and LLMs for cost insights. The position involves technical leadership in near real-time large data processing and distributed service infrastructure.

Databricks is seeking a Senior Applied ML Engineer to join the Applied AI team and optimize the efficiency and performance of their infrastructure. The role involves designing and deploying ML4Sys solutions, scaling serverless compute products, and building robust ML pipelines across distributed environments. Candidates should have a strong background in production machine learning, cloud computing, and programming in Python, Scala, or Java.

Databricks is seeking a Director, Paid Media to lead its global media planning function and cross-channel strategies across the full funnel. In this role, you will build and scale a high-performing team of media planners to execute data-driven strategies that drive brand awareness, account engagement, and pipeline growth. You will collaborate closely with internal cross-functional teams and external agencies to optimize media investments and global campaign performance.

Databricks is looking for a Sr. Executive Assistant to support a Senior Leader within Product & Engineering while also assisting the SVP of Corporate Development & Ventures. This high-visibility role involves calendar management, event planning, triaging deal-driven requests, and handling sensitive M&A and product information. The ideal candidate will operationalize cross-functional strategies across technical teams and external stakeholders.

As a Deployment Strategist on Databricks' Forward Deployed Engineering team, you will bridge customer business problems with technical solutions by serving as a product manager for the field. You will partner with executive stakeholders, perform value scoping, write PRDs, and manage agile project delivery from MVP to full adoption.

Databricks is hiring a Sr. Product Designer to build intuitive, trustworthy AI and business intelligence experiences that connect complex AI systems with human decision-making. In this role, you will design natural language data exploration workflows, AI-generated insights, and enterprise design patterns. You will work closely with product and engineering teams to lead design projects from concept to general availability.

The Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer works with clients on short to medium-term professional services engagements to address complex big data challenges using the Databricks platform. In this role, you will design, build, and deploy data architectures, AI applications, and offer technical guidance to ensure successful customer adoption. You will also collaborate with Databricks internal teams to deliver technical solutions and support operational issues.

Databricks is hiring a Senior Manager of Accounting to lead key areas of the global close, including GL, accruals, leases, and cloud infrastructure spend. This hands-on, player-coach role involves managing a small team, ensuring strong U.S. GAAP compliance, and driving close efficiency through AI and automation. Additionally, the role will play a key part in SOX compliance, process redesign, and an ongoing SAP implementation.

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Databricks, you will work directly with enterprise customers to design, build, and deploy production-grade data and AI solutions. You will lead architectural decisions, integrate client systems, and contribute reusable frameworks to scale impact. This hands-on role requires technical project delivery expertise, strong coding skills, and cross-functional collaboration.

Databricks is hiring a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer to lead the architecture and delivery of end-to-end data and AI solutions for enterprise customers. This hands-on, customer-facing role involves embedding with client teams to build production-grade big data applications, pipelines, and ML/AI models using the Databricks platform. FDEs also contribute reusable assets and frameworks to scale technical impact and inform product strategy.

Databricks is seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive product vision and strategy for Unity Catalog, the metadata and governance foundation for the Lakehouse platform. This role involves designing fine-grained security and governance capabilities, defining platform services for internal product teams, and engaging enterprise customers to propel broad adoption.

Databricks is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to guide U.S. Public Sector customers in evaluating and adopting the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform. In this customer-facing pre-sales role, you will partner with the sales team to design big data architectures, execute proof of concepts, and build trusted relationships with clients.

As a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer, you will partner directly with enterprise clients to architect and productionize solutions for their data and AI challenges using the Databricks platform. You will lead technical project delivery, design scalable end-to-end data pipelines and ML/AI architectures, and embed with customer teams to drive business outcomes.

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Solutions Architect to lead complex customer engagements and drive technical consumption strategy for enterprise data and AI platforms. In this role, you will design scalable enterprise architectures, serve as an executive advisor, and mentor junior SAs. You will also develop competitive strategies and deliver platform solutions using deep technical expertise.

Databricks is seeking a Senior Staff Product Operations Manager to serve as an operational architect embedded within Engineering, driving alignment across Product, Support, and Go-to-Market teams. The role focuses on designing high-fidelity operational frameworks, optimizing the product development lifecycle, and using data-driven insights to inform executive strategy.

Databricks is hiring a Staff Backend Software Engineer to join its AI Platform team. In this role, you will build substrate and infrastructure powering data apps, AI agents, model training, model serving, and vector search. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve the reliability, latency, and efficiency of distributed AI workloads.

Databricks is seeking a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager for Reliability to lead cross-company strategy, execution, and continuous improvement across infrastructure and product engineering teams. The role involves defining long-term reliability roadmaps, managing end-to-end program execution, and partnering with senior engineering leadership to enhance platform availability. Qualified candidates must have deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or site reliability engineering.

Databricks is seeking a Staff Product Manager to lead data security strategy for the Databricks Lakehouse platform. In this role, you will define and deliver controls for data privacy, confidentiality, encryption, and regulatory compliance across multi-cloud environments. You will partner with engineering, legal, security, and cloud providers to build secure, best-in-class user experiences for enterprise customers.

Databricks is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to drive the architecture and evolution of AI Runtime, its managed GPU training platform. The role focuses on scaling high-throughput, multi-node training infrastructure, optimizing GPU efficiency, and building robust resilience and observability features. You will also mentor senior engineers and collaborate across product, research, and platform teams to advance AI training infrastructure.

Databricks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Frontend to join its NYC Engineering office and build vertical AI applications in a 0-to-1 environment. The role involves leading hands-on frontend and full-stack development to design novel interfaces for GenAI agents. Candidates will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate customer problems into scalable, user-centric products.

Databricks is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help design and implement next-generation query engines and structured storage systems for its Lakehouse platform. The role involves working on core database engine internals such as query compilation, distributed execution, vectorized engines, and physical data optimization. Candidates should have a strong interest in database performance and architecture, with preferred experience in related systems.

Databricks is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Trust & Safety team to define the strategy and vision for security engineering. The role focuses on identifying and closing security gaps in infrastructure and services to protect customer data. Candidates will also represent the security engineering discipline across the company and at industry events.

Databricks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to define vision and strategy within the Security Infrastructure and Trust & Safety teams. In this role, you will help make the platform safer by identifying and addressing gaps in infrastructure, building large-scale distributed systems, and representing security engineering across the company. You will also recruit top talent and evangelize data security to senior leadership.

Databricks is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join its NYC office and build CustomerLake, a Customer Data Platform bringing enterprise-grade ML and AI personalization to Databricks customers. In this 0-to-1 role, you will evaluate ML and LLM approaches, build evaluation frameworks, and lead the technical foundation for production personalization models. The position requires a strong background in shipping ML/AI products and hands-on experience with recommendation systems and generative AI.

Databricks is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and extend core multi-cloud infrastructure and developer tools powering its Big Data and AI platform. In this role, you will architect distributed systems, manage Kubernetes clusters at scale, and automate build, test, and CI/CD workflows.

Databricks is seeking a Product Management Intern for a 12-week paid summer program located in San Francisco, Mountain View, or Bellevue. In this role, you will collaborate with engineers and designers to prototype, build, and launch features on the Databricks data and AI platform. Applicants should be pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field graduating in Fall 2027 or Spring 2028.

As a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will partner with clients to design, build, and productionize data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform. You will own technical architecture, lead end-to-end system design, and embed with customer teams to solve complex big data and ML/AI challenges. This hands-on, customer-facing role bridges software engineering, data platforms, and strategic technical delivery.

Databricks is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to join the Trust and Safety team to build secure platform solutions for data and AI. The role involves developing machine learning models to detect fraud, abuse, and anomalous activity across global cloud infrastructure. Additionally, you will partner cross-functionally with engineering and security teams while mentoring junior data scientists.