About this role
P-375
At Databricks, we build powerful infrastructure that accelerates innovation and enables data teams to deliver with confidence and scale. Our unified schema migration platform underpins automated, observable, and developer-friendly workflows—ensuring Databricks can continue evolving rapidly across thousands of databases and 60+ mission-critical services.
What You’ll Do
As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll lead the design, development, and reliability of our global platform that manages schema and data changes at scale:
• Schema Migration Platform: Architecting and maintaining automated schema change infrastructure for MySQL and TiDB, while implementing versioning, rollback, validation, and auditing for safe, predictable, and fast migrations.
• Scale, Reliability & Test Harness: Ensuring the platform operates across thousands of global databases with zero downtime, enhancing resilience, observability, and recovery, and building a test harness for migration and deployment validation.
• Developer Experience & CI/CD Integration: Designing intuitive tools and APIs for seamless schema and data change management, and embedding migration workflows into CI/CD pipelines to increase velocity and reduce friction.
• Schema & Data management: Designing infrastructure for safe, large-scale schema and data operations like backfills and purging. This includes ensuring backfill operations are monitored, retryable, minimally disruptive, and automated to align with schema/data evolution and maintain data integrity.
Your role will be crucial in:
• Ensuring the scalability and reliability of schema and data operations across Databricks’ global footprint.
• Driving predictable deployments by architecting robust test harnesses and automation.
• Elevating the developer experience by building accessible, resilient tools that make complex migrations feel simple.
• Guaranteeing the integrity of both schema and data through safe, efficient backfill strategies.
What we look for:
• 12+ years of professional experience in backend systems or platform engineering.
• Experience in building platforms, infrastructure, or database engineering , especially with MySQL , TiDB .
• Track record of building and scaling mission-critical platforms supporting high-throughput, global services.
• Experience with schema migration frameworks, CI/CD automation and developer tooling.
• Champion of developer experience , creating clear, reliable, and user-friendly workflows.
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity C