Software Engineer - Performance PhD… at Databricks · Mountain…

Summary: Databricks is a data and AI company that helps data teams solve complex problems by providing a robust data and AI infrastructure platform. The role of Performance Engineer involves evaluating product performance, identifying bottlenecks, and collaborating with teams to enhance scalability and performance across the entire software stack. Responsibilities: - You will identify performance limitations of the entire stack based on telemetry, customer signals, POCs, and benchmarks to result in the best performing system across the industry, when resolved. Impact spans all cloud providers and all major areas - You will set the performance expectations for all cross-cutting efforts early on through specialized benchmarks capturing the intended customer user journeys, and make sure they are met before deployed to customers - You will understand the performance characteristics of the compute instance types, storage layers, and all cloud services Databricks depends on and deploy solutions to meet the customer demand - You will work with customers to root cause and reduce performance problems during production, previews, and POCs Required Qualifications: - PhD in databases or systems - Knowledge of database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, and performance optimization - Motivated by delivering customer value and influence Required Skills: PhD in databases, systems, database systems knowledge, distributed systems knowledge, performance optimization Important Skills: customer value delivery Nice-to-Have Skills: motivated Benefits: Eligibility for annual performance bonus, Equity