Databricks

Staff Software Engineer, Foundation Model API

San Francisco, California · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$190k-$265kDetected 4 days ago

PythonGoScalaDistributed SystemsDatabricksAzureMachine LearningSparkNLPLLMsAgentic AIResearch

About the role

You'll be joining a high-agency, high-visibility team operating at the frontier of AI infrastructure - with deep ties to research, product, and real-world enterprise use cases.
The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles.
Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range.

We're building the products and infrastructure that power the next generation of AI.
Collaborate with platform, infra, and ML teams to deliver seamless end-to-end experiences
Shape how developers and data scientists build and interact with AI on Databricks

8+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering
Experience with distributed systems, scalable APIs, or cloud-native infrastructure
Experience with real-time serving, ML infrastructure, or GPU orchestration
Familiarity with service-oriented architecture, deployment pipelines, and system observability

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles.
Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location.
The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above.
Local Pay Range
$190,000 - $265,000 USD

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees.
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At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data and AI teams to solve the world's toughest problems - from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs.

We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business.
Founded by engineers - and customer-obsessed - we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines.
As part of the AI team, you'll build the platforms and products that power everything from data apps, AI agents, model training, model serving, and Vector Search.
Databricks Mosaic AI is one of our fastest-growing businesses, helping thousands of our customers democratize AI within their organizations.
We are looking to hire high-agency engineers who bridge the gap between technical execution and product strategy.
Build LLM infrastructure powering large-scale inference workloads for customers through partner models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) and self-hosted models (Qwen, GPT-OSS, Llama)
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel.

This listing is sourced directly from Databricks's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.