Staff Software Engineer- Foundation Model Inference

Databricks · Engineering

Location: San Francisco, California
Metro: San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace: Unspecified
Level: Staff+
Type: Unspecified
Pay: $190K–$265K/yr (estimated from posting text)
Posted: 3 months ago
Source: Greenhouse

What the posting covers

About the company

P-1930 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data and AI teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and…

The impact you will have

Build LLM infrastructure powering large-scale inference workloads for customers through partner models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) and self-hosted models (Qwen, GPT-OSS, Llama) Improve reliability, latency, and efficiency of distributed AI workloads…

What we look for

8+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering Experience with distributed systems, scalable APIs, or cloud-native infrastructure Experience with real-time serving, ML infrastructure, or GPU orchestration Familiarity with service-oriented…

Bonus points for

Exposure to platforms like SageMaker, Vertex AI, or Azure ML Contributions to OSS projects like MLflow, PyTorch, Ray, vLLM, SGLang Built developer platforms or internal tools supporting AI workflows

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation…

About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps,…

Compliance

If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on…

Excerpts only. The employer’s page has the complete posting.