Staff Engineer - Databricks

Responsibilities

• Data Architecture and Design: Designing and overseeing the architecture of scalable and reliable data platforms, including data pipelines, storage solutions, and processing systems
• Data Modelling and Management:Developing and implementing data models, ensuring data quality, and establishing data governance policies
• Data Pipeline Development: Building and optimising data pipelines for ingesting, processing, and transforming large datasets from various sources
• Performance Optimisation: Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in data pipelines and systems, ensuring efficient data retrieval and processing
• Technology Evaluation and Innovation: Staying abreast of emerging data technologies and exploring opportunities for innovation to improve the organisation’s data infrastructure
• Troubleshooting and Problem Solving: Diagnosing and resolving complex data-related issues, ensuring the stability and reliability of the data platform
• Data Security and Compliance: Implementing data security measures, ensuring compliance with data governance policies, and protecting sensitive data
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in data engineering or a similar role.
• Working with Product engineering team to influence designs with data, AI and analytics use cases in mind
• Experience in modern AI/Data infrastructure patterns, Semantics layer Organizing data for AI agents (metadata, context)
• Programming languages like Python, SQL, and potentially Java or Scala

You Have

Enterprise SaaS software solutions with high availability and scalability

Solution handling large scale structured and unstructured data from varied data sources

Experience in building and maintaining data platform systems such as distributed compute, data orchestration, distributed storage, streaming infrastructure ensuring scalability, reliability, efficiency and security

In depth experience in System design involving large Petabytes of data with Databricks Lakehouse

AWS, GCP, Snowflake and Data pipeline frameworks like Airbyte/Airflow

Modern software engineering practices like Kubernetes, CI/CD, IAC tools (Preferably Terraform), Observability, monitoring and alerting

Solution Cost Optimisations and design to cost

Driving engineering excellence initiative

• Legally eligible to work in India on an ongoing basis
• Fluency in English is required

Get to Know Us

At Smartsheet, your ideas are heard, your potential is supported, and your contributions have real impact. You’ll have the freedom to explore, push boundaries, and grow beyond your role. We welcome diverse perspectives and nontraditional paths—because we know that impact comes from individuals who care deeply and challenge thoughtfully. When you’re doing work that stretches you, excites you, and connects you to something bigger, that’s magic at work. Let’s build what’s next, together.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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