Staff Software Engineer, AI Search
$166,000–$225,000 year
On-site · Mountain View Santa Clara County, California, United States
Job Summary
Staff Software Engineer, AI Search role at Databricks focusing on designing and evolving a scalable, low-latency Search stack for vector, keyword, and hybrid retrieval. Lead end-to-end engineering from design to production rollout, mentor engineers, collaborate across teams to shape APIs and developer experiences for AI-powered search applications, and influence long-term technical direction in search, AI infrastructure, and data systems. Requirements include 10+ years of distributed systems experience, deep expertise in search technologies, storage and recommendation engines familiarity, strong algorithms and system design skills, and a track record of delivering high-impact initiatives.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Deep expertise in Search technologies (vector, keyword, hybrid) and related domains such as indexing, ranking, retrieval infrastructure, and relevance optimization
- Familiarity with storage systems, recommendation engines, and database internals
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and system design as applied to large-scale retrieval and data systems
- Proven ability to deliver technically complex, high-impact initiatives that create customer or business value
- Experience leading architecture for performance-sensitive, large-scale systems
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams in fast-moving environments
- Strategic and product-oriented mindset with the ability to align technical execution with long-term vision
- Passion for mentoring, growing engineers, and fostering technical excellence
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