Technical Services Engineer, Partners

Principal Engineer/Chief Architect, Coupang Eats Coupang is one of the largest and fastest growing commerce platforms on the planet. We are on a mission to revolutionize everyday lives for our customers, employees and partners. We solve problems no one has solved before to create a world where people ask, “How did we ever live without Coupang?” Coupang is a global company with offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, and Silicon Valley.  Coupang Eats, one of the fastest growing business units within Coupang, innovates to offer the best customer experience with our fast and convenient food delivery service. We are an interdisciplinary team consisting of Business, Product, Engineering, Sales and Operations focused on building the best food delivery company in the world. Coupang Eats strives to deliver your food faster and safer than ever and offers a seamless one-touch payment to help customers save time paying to spend more time choosing their menu. If you have the technical and leadership aptitude with a passion to drive impact, join us.   Role Overview Coupang Eats Engineering builds various products & services for our Customers, Stores (Restaurants/Cafes), Couriers and internal operations. It’s a complex multi-faceted problem that requires optimization across the business (customer experience, merchant management, delivery efficiency & effectiveness) to provide fast and cost-effective experience to our customers and partners. As a senior technical leader in Eats Engineering, you will drive cross-team initiatives that are critical to business growth while ensuring engineering excellence. You will ensure all of Eats Engineering platforms are scalable, extendable, and highly available. You will be comfortable getting into code level details with other engineers and building software. Key Responsibilities * Provide technical leadership to Eats Engineering organization and ensure that our engineers are working on building scalable and fault-tolerant systems * Engage with senior leadership and product owner(s) in developing and executing technical strategy and roadmap ensuring scalability and simplicity * Drive mission critical projects in collaboration with various stakeholders and engineers to solve complex business problems * Own the overall architecture plan and application of best practice architecture, design patterns and ongoing simplification of the system landscape * Dive deep to solve critical system issues. Ideally identify them before they happen and device a plan to address them * Help recruit top tier senior engineers to develop and grow a high performance and impact-driven organization * Develop, mentor, and coach engineers on architecture, design and engineering best practices * Communicate clearly and concisely with the team members, peers and leadership team * Own definition, measurement, and reporting of system and operational metrics   Minimum Qualifications * 10+ years of industry experience building B2C scale products, preferably in Java stack and AWS cloud environment * 7+ years of experience in technical leadership roles. Demonstrated experience in driving technical vision and execution at an organization / business unit level * Hands on technical skills in designing, building and delivering scalable and highly available products and services * Solid technical expertise and experience in Java development, system & data architecture, distributed computing & storage, messaging services, caches and performance tuning * Experience collaborating and driving initiatives across globally distributed teams * Data driven, business centric, and a high bias for action and impact. Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive * Strong verbal and written communication skills * Bachelor/Master/PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or related field * Ecommerce / Food Delivery product development experience, a big plus

P- 1536 At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data 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 tackle 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. The Partner Ecosystem team’s mission at Databricks is to enrich and win customer workloads through seamless integrations with strategic partners, while also widening the partner ecosystem to include new partners and data applications. This team enables seamless connectivity between Databricks and a vast range of partner applications through SQLDrivers. This vital data integration work powers the majority of the company’s Data Warehousing revenue by allowing customers to effortlessly connect their applications to Databricks SQL. In addition to that, through products like Databricks Partner Connect, we are simplifying the discovery and integration process, allowing you to seamlessly incorporate your preferred tools directly within the Databricks platform.  We are seeking an experienced Staff / Sr Staff Engineer to join our Partner Ecosystem team. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain SQL drivers that power the majority of the data warehousing traffic and critical infrastructure components that power our partner integrations. You'll focus on optimizing SQLDrivers for performance, improved reliability and telemetry to offer seamless connectivity to our partners and enterprise customers, while also maintaining open source repositories and actively engaging with the developer community. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements, architect solutions, and implement robust systems that enable our partners to connect seamlessly to the Databricks platform, ultimately driving Data Warehousing revenue and customer satisfaction.   The impact you'll have: As a Staff Software Engineer working on the Partner Ecosystem team, you will get to build and evolve a set of highly performant and resilient Databricks SQL connectors for partners and enterprise customers enabling them to connect to Databricks SQL seamlessly and derive meaningful insights from data. In addition to that, you will get to evolve our Partner Connect offering, helping grow the elite partner ecosystem within Databricks.You will achieve this by being customer obsessed, raising the bar on open source community engagement, being hands-on in building the product, closely collaborating with the product team. You’ll work on challenges such as: * Building reliable SQL connectors * Engage and grow the open source community around SQL connectors * Work closely with the SQL server teams, delivering new features to the SQL connectors, as per customer needs. * Work closely with product team to shape the future of Partner Connect, thus growing the partner ecosystem around Databricks What We Look For * BTech (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field * 10+ years of production level experience in one of: Java, Python, Go, or similar language * Comfortable working towards a multi-quarter vision with incremental deliverables * Proven track record in architecting, developing, deploying, and operating highly performant systems * Experience with open source communities through maintaining or contributing to open source repositories * Demonstrated ability to lead engineering projects across functional and organizational boundaries * Ability to navigate ambiguity and work with stakeholders to bring clarity and design innovative solutions to complex problems     About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. 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. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.