# Sr. Software Engineer - Ingestion Core team at Databricks

- Company: Databricks
- What the company does: Backed by Battery, Insight and Kleiner Perkins.
- Company website: http://www.databricks.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://databricks.com/company/careers/open-positions/job?gh_jid=8815669002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/databricks-sr-software-engineer-ingestion-core-team/

## About the role

To enable all of this on Databricks, making data ingestion seamless is crucial. That’s the mission of the Ingestion Core Team: to make the ingestion of all data—structured and unstructured—simple, reliable, and efficient. Simplifying the complex is hard, and that’s where you come in.

## What they're looking for

- Build distributed infrastructure to ingest data from diverse sources and support streaming ingestion, incremental processing, and replication. This isn’t just about building plugin connectors
- Reduce end-to-end latency, increase throughput, and reduce costs from the time data appears in source systems to when it is available in Delta Lake
- Design and optimize streaming and distributed workloads for throughput, cost, latency, reliability, and scale
- Optimize streaming workloads by exploring and applying ML techniques
- Build monitoring and observability capabilities (customer-facing and internal) that provide visibility into ingestion workflows and the systems running them
- Collaborate with partner teams to enable use cases like RAG and AI agents

Tags: Engineering - Pipeline