Senior Software Engineer - Application Traffic team

Databricks is a data and AI company that enables data teams to solve complex problems through their infrastructure platform. The Senior Software Engineer on the Application Traffic team will design and build systems for service-to-service communication in a multi-cloud environment, focusing on enhancing connectivity and reliability for product teams.

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