Senior Software Engineer — Backend (Files Team)

San Francisco · USD 166,000-225,000 / year · 3+ years experience · Posted Oct 2, 2026

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Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Files team, you will innovate at the intersection of storage, performance, and distributed systems.
You will directly shape the filesystem strategy to power next-generation agentic workloads.

Design, build, and operate the filesystem platform powering tens of thousands of data, AI and agentic workloads daily
Push filesystem performance for the most demanding workloads — profiling and optimizing across the stack, from the API layer down to the Linux kernel
Partner with teams across the platform to design and evolve next-generation compute and storage architectures
Set the technical direction for how content is organized across Databricks, standardizing around filesystem primitives that apply to every product surface

Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field
5+ years of production-level experience in Java, Scala, C++, Go, Rust, or a similar language
3+ years of experience developing large-scale distributed systems
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or MicroVM technologies (e.g., Firecracker) and a strong grasp of cloud provider internals (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Experience with filesystems and FUSE
Experience building object/blob storage (S3, Azure Blob Storage, GCS etc)
Systems performance engineering across microservices, down to the Linux level
Background in high-scale content, storage, or file-sync products

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