[Remote] Software Engineer - Performance PhD Candidates

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Databricks is a data and AI company that helps data teams solve complex problems by building a robust data and AI infrastructure platform. The performance engineer role involves evaluating product performance, identifying bottlenecks, and collaborating with teams to enhance scalability and efficiency across their software products.

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
• 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

Skills

• PhD in databases or systems
• Knowledge of database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, and performance optimization
• Motivated by delivering customer value and influence

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Equity

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