Databricks

Sr. Software Engineer - Performance

Databricks$166K — $225K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field
  • Experience in performance analysis and problem-solving
  • Software development experience in large-scale distributed systems
  • Ability to document performance impacts on workloads
  • Strong relationship-building skills with developers and engineers

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate performance of products and features across teams
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks
  • Set performance expectations with specialized benchmarks
  • Conduct competitive benchmark analysis for Databricks products
  • Work with customers to address performance issues in production

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and perks tailored to employee needs
  • Support for professional development and training opportunities
  • Eligibility for annual performance bonuses and equity
  • Flexible work environment to encourage work-life balance
  • Resources for employee wellness and support programs
Full Job Description
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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.

The impact you will have:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Work with customers to root cause and mitigate performance problems during production, previews, and POCs.


What We Look For:
  • BS (or higher degree) in Computer Science, or a related field
  • Experience in the performance analysis discipline. Ability to identify performance issues, root cause problems, and be able to come up with potential solutions.
  • Experience in software development, preferably in large scale distributed systems
  • 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.
  • Ability to build strong working relationships with developers and field engineers to facilitate triaging and mitigation of performance problems.


Pay Range Transparency

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 here.

Local Pay Range

$166,000-$225,000 USD

BenefitsAt Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.

About Databricks

Databricks is a unified analytics platform that provides data engineering, collaborative data science, and machine learning capabilities. The company was founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, a popular open-source big data processing engine. Databricks provides a cloud-based platform that allows data teams to collaborate and build data pipelines, run machine learning models, and perform advanced analytics. The company has raised over $1 billion in funding and is valued at $38 billion as of November 2021.
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Founded
2013

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