Staff Software Engineer - User Activation

About the role

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At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data 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 running the world's 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 we're only getting started.

As a Staff Engineer on the User Activation team, you will play a critical role in driving the technical vision, architecture, and execution for horizontal product experiences that accelerate customer adoption and growth. Sitting at the entry point for all Databricks customers, you will help guide a team of ~20 software engineers to create seamless onboarding flows, intuitive workspace experiences, and partner integrations that power Databricks expansion.

The impact you'll have:

- Define and drive the strategy for customer onboarding, workspace experience, account management, and other horizontal product experiences.

- Partner closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build intuitive, scalable, and extensible solutions that drive product-led growth.

- Lead architectural decisions to ensure performance, reliability, and simplicity across core user flows.

- Hands-on full-stack software development to create dynamic, user-centric experiences.

- Drive best practices for engineering excellence, including design reviews, code quality, testing strategies, and performance optimizations.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with teams developing vertical product experiences (Lakehouse Platform, SQL Warehouse, AI/BI Dashboards) and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration and innovation.

What we look for:

- 15+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of technical leadership and impact.

- 5+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers.

- Expertise in Front End or Full Stack development.

- Experience designing and building scalable SaaS platforms, onboarding flows, or customer growth-focused product experiences.

- Expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and modern web application architectures.

- Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives.

- Passion for the data intelligence space.

Why Join us?

- Work on high-impact, high-visibility initiatives that directly contribute to Databricks' growth trajectory.

- Lead and mentor a talented team of engineers solving challenging, customer-centric problems.