Staff Software Engineer Access Management

P-211

At Databricks we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the worlds 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 worlds 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 tackle technical challenges from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with data to scaling our services and infrastructure across millions of virtual machines. And were only getting started.

The Access Management team owns the core systems that determine what users applications and automated workloads can do across this role you will set technical direction for the platforms authorization service unify permission checking build fine-grained access controls and network ingress policies and improve service availability reliability and performance.

The Impact You Will Have

• Define technical strategy and architectural direction for access management and authorization systems across the Databricks platform.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable high-performance permissions services that support fine-grained access controls and network ingress policies.
• Drive cross-team technical initiatives to unify permission checking and improve security posture across multiple services.
• Own critical system reliability availability and performance at scale ensuring high SLAs for access management infrastructure.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization through design reviews technical guidance and engineering best practices.

What We Look For

• 8 years of software engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in access management identity systems or authorization frameworks with experience building and operating production security infrastructure.
• Expert-level experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems with strong fundamentals in concurrency microservices architecture and cloud platforms.
• Experience with software security and systems that handle sensitive data including authentication authorization and compliance requirements.
• Track record of leading complex technical projects from conception through delivery involving multiple teams or system boundaries.
• Ability to influence technical direction at the team and organizational level through strong technical judgment and clear communication.
• Experience with one or more programming languages including Java Scala C or Go.
• B.S. M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.