Sr. Staff Software Engineer — Observability, Insights & Governance

The role

This senior technical leader will drive strategy and execution across Query Observability, SQL Warehouse Management, and Account-Level Observability and Governance. You will set durable architecture and build agentic experiences for investigating and acting on insights across query, warehouse, workspace, and account levels.

What you will do

• Establish long-term technical direction across query observability, warehouse management, and account-level governance.
• Own the multi-year architecture for all three surfaces.
• Design and lead high-impact projects for performance, reliability, and cost transparency.
• Build next generation agentic observability and governance experiences.
• Partner with Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog, AI, security, and platform teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and set technical standards across the group.
• Recruit top talent into observability, insights, and governance.
• Champion reliable, high-quality software and operational practices.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, observability or governance platforms, databases, or backend infrastructure.
• Proven track record as a technical leader in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Deep computer science fundamentals including algorithms, data structures, and systems design.
• Experience with one or more of: observability and telemetry pipelines, query engines and query analytics, distributed tracing and metrics, time-series storage, data governance, or large-scale logging
• Strong cross-functional communication skills.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• MS/PhD
• experience building agentic experiences using LLMs

About the company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.