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Build infrastructure powering large-scale LLM inference for enterprise customers, serving both partner models and self-hosted solutions. You'll optimize reliability, latency, and efficiency of distributed AI workloads while collaborating across platform and ML teams. This role requires 8+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience, with expertise in distributed systems, scalable APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure. Experience with real-time serving, ML infrastructure, or GPU orchestration is essential. Pay ranges from $190,000 to $265,000 USD.

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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 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 solve 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 part of the AI team, you'll build the platforms and products that power everything from data apps, AI agents, model training, model serving, and Vector Search. You'll be joining a high-agency, high-visibility team operating at the frontier of AI infrastructure — with deep ties to research, product, and real-world enterprise use cases. Databricks Mosaic AI is one of our fastest-growing businesses, helping thousands of our customers democratize AI within their organizations. We're building the products and infrastructure that power the next generation of AI.

The Foundation Model Inference team is the backbone of Databricks’ generative AI capabilities. We build the infrastructure that enables our customers to serve, scale, and optimize frontier models with enterprise-grade reliability and performance. Our Foundation Model APIs provide a unified platform that gives customers access to LLMs with the governance, flexibility, and scalability required for enterprise production workloads.

We are looking for high-agency engineers who are excited to work on powering model inference at enterprise scale.

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
  • Collaborate with platform, infra, and ML teams to deliver seamless end-to-end experiences
  • Shape how developers and data scientists build and interact with AI on Databricks

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 architecture, deployment pipelines, and system observability

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 packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

 

Local Pay Range
$190,000$265,000 USD

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, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

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Databricks
Data & Analytics · 500+ Members · San Francisco, CA, United States

Databricks builds the Data Intelligence Platform, a lakehouse architecture that unifies data warehousing, analytics and machine learning on open formats. The company originated Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow.

Founded in 2013 by the creators of Spark at UC Berkeley, Databricks serves enterprises building data pipelines, analytics and AI applications at scale.

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Job Overview
Job Posted:
1 month ago
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On-site
Job Type
Full Time
Education
Any
Experience
8+ years

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