Sr. Software Engineer - Performance

About this role

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">P-97</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems. 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. We constantly push the boundaries of data and AI technology, while simultaneously operating with the resilience, security and scale that is critical to making customers successful on our platform. Databricks develops and operates 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 regularly observe cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software must gracefully shield our customers from any of the above.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a performance engineer, you will work closely with multiple teams across the company to evaluate the performance of products and features, identify performance bottlenecks, and partner with engineers to solve performance and scalability issues. This implies, among other teams, setting performance targets for various software releases, guiding teams to develop performance benchmarks, running competitive benchmark analysis for different Databricks products, doing deep dive analysis to identify performance issues and fix them.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>The impact you will have:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identify performance limitations of the entire stack based on telemetry, customer signals, PoCs, and competitive benchmarks, that will result in the best performing system across the industry, when resolved. Dimensions include latency, data and compute scalability, concurrency, cost, and price to performance ratio. Impact spans all cloud providers and all major areas.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Set the performance expectations for all cross-cutting efforts early on through specialized benchmarks capturing the intended customer user journeys, and make sure they are met before deployed to customers.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Understand the performance characteristics of the compute instance types, storage layers, and all cloud services Databricks depends on and deploy optimal solutions to meet the customer demand.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work with customers to root cause and mitigate performance problems during production, previews, and POCs.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>What We Look For:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">BS (or higher degree) in Computer Science, or a related field</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience in the performance analysis discipline. Ability to identify performance issues, root cause problems, and be able to come up with potential solutions. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience in software development, preferably in large scale distributed systems</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ability to measure and document the impact of performance features to existing customers, such as possible regressions for certain workloads, their extent, and which customers will be affected.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ability to build strong working relationships with developers and field engineers to facilitate triaging and mitigation of performance problems.</span></li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p> </p> <p><strong>Pay Range Transparency</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 14px;">Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles.  Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page <a href="https://www.databricks.com/sites/default/files/2024-08/us-pay-zone-mapping.pdf">here</a>.<br></span></p> <p> </p></div><div class="title">Local Pay Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$166,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$225,000…