Staff Software Engineer, AI Native Web Platform

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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Staff Software Engineer, AI-Native Web Platform</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">GAQ327R228</span></p> <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;">About Us:</span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Web Platform team at Databricks builds and owns the public-facing web experiences that represent Databricks to the world. We are rebuilding the platform from the ground up, AI-native from the start, and pioneering an agentic SDLC as our operating model.</span></p> <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Role:</span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As Staff Software Engineer on the Web Platform team, reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will own the platform layer that the rest of the team builds on: web framework, design system, CMS, infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, AI-enabled translation, and SDLC agents. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is a rare opportunity to design a web platform for an AI-native world from the ground up. The north star architecture is being defined now and you will be a primary author of it. You will partner with technical leaders across web and marketing engineering, and set the standard for what AI-native platform engineering looks like in practice.</span></p> <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The impact you’ll have</strong>:</span></h1> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Define the technical roadmap for the web platform: component systems, rendering architecture, CMS, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling, built AI-native from the start. </span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Influence technical leaders across the organization on shared architectural decisions and contribute to the broader north star for AI-native engineering at Databricks. </span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pioneer an AI-native SDLC by applying agentic unlocks across code generation, testing, review, deployment, and production monitoring. </span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Define the evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and feedback loops that make agentic workflows reliable and production-grade. </span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mentor and grow engineers on the team, setting the standard for what AI-native thinking and execution looks like in practice.</span></li> </ul> <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What we look for:</span></h1> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">12+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of technical leadership and impact.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3+ years of engineering leadership experience, serving as the technical owner for the software systems owned by your team.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Proven track record as a technical leader of a web platform, with direct ownership across design systems, rendering frameworks, and understanding of edge delivery, CI/CD and infrastructure</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Deep hands-on expertise across the full web stack like React, TypeScript, Node.js.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Demonstrated ability to make and execute multi-layer architectural decisions on a live production platform</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience sequencing and executing frontend framework migrations without disrupting production </span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A clear point of view on AI-native software development and a track record of building toward it</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Familiarity with agentic systems or LLM-powered tooling is a strong plus.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong ability to influence technical leaders and drive alignment across engineering and business stakeholders</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">History of driving technical transformation with rigor and execution discipline: stack consolidation, or platform-level standards adoption at scale</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…