Senior Backend Engineer - Filesystem & Distributed Systems
Summary
Senior backend engineer on Databricks' Files team in San Francisco, designing and operating scalable filesystem platforms for data, AI, and agentic workloads. Day-to-day work centers on distributed systems, storage architecture, and performance optimization from API down to kernel.
Databricks is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Files team to innovate at the intersection of storage, performance, and distributed systems. You will shape our filesystem strategy to support next-generation agentic workloads across thousands of data, AI, and agentic tasks.
You will design, build, and operate scalable filesystem platforms, optimize performance from API to kernel, and collaborate with platform teams to define future compute/storage architectures.