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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days Databricks's roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Databricks's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Databricks
- high 863 stale, 25 reposted of 879 open
- Hiring momentum
- 1112 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-22
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Databricks's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Databricks.
About this role
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Public Sector team at Databricks, you will focus on backend engineering for the Data Intelligence Platform, ensuring it operates efficiently in sovereign and air-gapped cloud environments. Your responsibilities will include designing and implementing scalable backend services, optimizing performance, and ensuring security and reliability in high-consequence public sector settings. You will tackle complex infrastructure challenges and own the end-to-end lifecycle of mission-critical code.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Databricks as an employer.
What you need
- Active Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance
- 9+ years of professional software development experience
- Deep understanding of Distributed Systems, concurrency, and performance optimization
- Strong production-level experience in at least one of: Java, Scala, Go, C++ or similar
- Experience building and deploying large-scale SaaS or cloud-native applications
Nice to have
- Possession of a current polygraph (Counterintelligence or Full Scope) is highly desired and considered a significant plus
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field
Worth weighing
- No specific benefits listed in the posting
- Pay range transparency provided, but actual compensation may vary based on multiple factors
- Role involves working in high-consequence public sector environments, which may come with unique challenges
Summarised from Databricks's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Databricks on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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