Sr. Staff Software Engineer — Observability, Insights & Governance
Databricks · Bellevue, Washington · Seattle, Washington
- Level
- Staff
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- On-site / hybrid
- Posted
- 2026-06-02
- Team
- Engineering
Role description
RDQ126R35 At Databricks, observability and governance are what turn a massive, multi-tenant data and AI platform into one customers can trust at scale. We are looking for a senior technical leader to drive strategy and execution across three closely related teams at the heart of that mission: Query Observability, SQL Warehouse Management, and Account-Level Observability and Governance. Query Observability builds the performance and observability tooling, ingesting very large volumes of query telemetry and turning it into history views, execution plans, performance insights, and recommendations that help customers run workloads reliably at scale.…
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