Senior Software Engineer - Application Traffic team

Databricks is a data and AI company that empowers data teams to tackle complex problems. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Application Traffic team, you will design and build systems for service-to-service communication across a multi-cloud environment, ensuring seamless connectivity and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Build the control plane for Databricks’ global ingress layer
• Enable programming of API gateways with static and dynamic endpoints, simplify service onboarding, and make it easy to expose APIs securely across clouds
• Design scalable mechanisms for service discovery and load balancing across thousands of clusters
• Provide networking abstractions so product teams don’t need to worry about underlying connectivity details
• Build intelligent rate limiting and admission control systems to protect critical services under high load
• Ensure reliability and predictable performance for both customer-facing and internal workloads

Requirements:

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems
• Strong proficiency in one or more languages such as Java, Scala, Go, or C++
• Experience with service-oriented architectures and large scale distributed systems
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container/orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Track record of shipping infrastructure that supports mission-critical workloads at scale
• background in service discovery, DNS, load balancing, Envoy, or related networking systems