# Staff Software Engineer, Lakeflow Pipelines DR 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: Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-25
- Apply: https://databricks.com/company/careers/open-positions/job?gh_jid=8798198002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/databricks-staff-software-engineer-lakeflow-pipelines-dr/

## About the role

As a Staff Engineer on the part of the Lakeflow Disaster Recovery team, you will design and implement distributed systems that replicate and recover pipelines across regions. A pipeline is more than source code and output tables: it includes streaming checkpoints, source offsets, stateful operator state, table versions, transaction metadata, schedules, and dependencies across a dataflow graph.

## What they're looking for

- Cross-region replication and recovery for Lakeflow pipelines, streaming tables, and materialized views
- Distributed consistency across pipeline dependencies, table versions, and transaction logs
- Failover and failback workflows with conservative correctness guardrails
- Deep clone, metadata reconciliation, observability, and failure-injection testing
- High-fidelity recovery simulations, game-day testing, and formal reasoning about failure modes
- A passion for distributed systems, databases, storage systems, streaming systems, or reliability engineering

Tags: Engineering - Pipeline