Senior Staff Software Engineer - Delta
Databricks London
Owns the core write-path operations for Delta Lake, the open-source storage layer behind the Databricks Lakehouse, driving performance innovations like Low Shuffle Merge and Deletion Vectors. The role involves low-level systems debugging, performance optimisation on large production clusters, architecture design, and technical leadership including mentoring and sprint planning. Distinct for its scale: millions of VMs, terabytes of logs and exabytes of data daily, with active open-source contribution.