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Staff Engineer - Databricks

Smartsheet

Bangalore, INDIA 1 day ago

AI overview

This role focuses on designing, developing, and optimizing scalable data platforms and pipelines. The Staff Engineer will manage data architecture, modeling, and governance, while ensuring data security and compliance. This position requires over 10 years of experience in data engineering, with a strong background in system design for large datasets and modern AI/data infrastructure.

You Will:

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

You Have:

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.
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
Working with Product engineering team to influence designs with data, AI and analytics use cases in mind
In depth experience in System design involving large Petabytes of data with Databricks Lakehouse
Experience in modern AI/Data infrastructure patterns, Semantics layer Organizing data for AI agents (metadata, context)
AWS, GCP, Snowflake and Data pipeline frameworks like Airbyte/Airflow
Programming languages like Python, SQL, and potentially Java or Scala
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

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Smartsheet is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment with the best employees. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants in accordance with applicable laws in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Costa Rica, Japan, Bulgaria, India, and Singapore. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

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