Staff Software Engineer, Foundational Model Serving

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DatabricksSan Francisco, Californiafull-timeprincipal

$192,000 USD

Tech Stack

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement core systems and APIs that power Databricks Foundation Model Serving, ensuring scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Partner with product and engineering leadership to define the technical roadmap and long-term architecture for serving workloads.
  • Drive architectural decisions and trade-offs to optimize performance, throughput, autoscaling, and operational efficiency for GPU serving workloads.
  • Contribute directly to key components across the serving infrastructure — from working in systems like vLLM and SGLang to creating token based rate limiters and optimizers — ensuring smooth and efficient operations at scale.
  • Establish best practices for code quality, testing, and operational readiness, and mentor other engineers through design reviews and technical guidance.

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Health Insurance

Culture

Pay TransparencyDiverse LeadershipInclusive Hiring

Requirements

Regions: Us

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About Databricks
Industry: data
Size: enterprise

Databricks is the data and AI company, providing a Data Intelligence Platform used by over 10,000 organizations worldwide to unify and democratize data, analytics, and AI.

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Compensation
Base salary: $192,000 USD
Equity: equity
Bonus: eligibility for annual performance bonus