As a Senior Software Engineer on the Application Traffic team at Databricks, you will design and build systems that facilitate service-to-service communication across a multi-cloud environment. Your work will involve creating abstractions to simplify networking complexities for product teams. You will focus on enhancing the networking stack, including ingress control, service discovery, and overload protection. This role requires a strong technical background and a passion for solving complex challenges in data and AI infrastructure.

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems
• Strong proficiency in one or more languages such as Java, Scala, Go, or C++
• Experience with service-oriented architectures and large scale distributed systems
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container/orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Track record of shipping infrastructure that supports mission-critical workloads at scale

• Build the control plane for Databricks’ global ingress layer and enable programming of API gateways.
• Design scalable mechanisms for service discovery and load balancing across thousands of clusters.
• Provide networking abstractions so product teams do not need to worry about underlying connectivity details.
• Build intelligent rate limiting and admission control systems to protect critical services under high load.
• Ensure reliability and predictable performance for both customer-facing and internal workloads.