Asserting Databricks Seattle R&D Website

As we speak, we’re excited to announce the opening of our Seattle R&D web site and our plan to rent a whole lot of engineers in Seattle within the subsequent a number of years. Our workplace location is in downtown Bellevue.

At Databricks, we’re keen about enabling knowledge groups to unravel the world’s hardest issues — from making the subsequent mode of transportation a actuality to accelerating the event of medical breakthroughs. We do that by constructing and working the world’s finest knowledge and AI infrastructure platform so our clients can use deep knowledge insights to enhance their enterprise. Based by engineers — and customer-obsessed — we leap at each alternative to unravel technical challenges, from designing next-gen UI/UX for interfacing with knowledge to scaling our companies and infrastructure throughout thousands and thousands of digital machines.

Constructing this platform requires world-class expertise. Recognizing the superb expertise pool within the Seattle space because of establishments like UW and different cutting-edge tech corporations, we’re excited to determine our presence there.

We’re launching quite a few necessary efforts in Seattle, protecting a large spectrum of our product and infrastructure:

• Frontend: An necessary founding thesis of Databricks is can’t simplify knowledge with out nice UI/UX. That’s why we’re on the forefront of constructing higher instruments that dramatically simplify the complexity of information science, from notebooks to visualizations. It is a huge constitution of our Seattle web site.
• Distributed Techniques and Infrastructure: As a result of data-intensive workloads are compute-intensive, we run one of many largest software program fleets. Our infrastructure launches thousands and thousands of digital machines every day processing exabytes of information. Even simply monitoring all of those VMs is a large scalability problem! Attributable to our scale, uncommon occasions are the norm (TCP SACK, kernel freezes, and reminiscence defrag points). The Seattle web site will embody our core compute material crew (useful resource administration for thousands and thousands of VMs), working system crew (high-performance safety isolation) and networking crew (safe, excessive throughput, low latency networking).
• Databases: We’re constructing the subsequent era question engine (Photon) and streaming techniques that may outperform specialised knowledge warehouses in relational question efficiency, but retain the expressiveness of general-purpose techniques reminiscent of Apache Spark to assist various workloads starting from ETL to knowledge science.
• Safety: Safety is paramount to our clients and core to how we construct and function techniques.   We’re constructing world-class safety infrastructure and frameworks, together with embedding safety as a core tenet in our growth lifecycle.

Your future colleagues

Though this weblog submit is the primary time we’re asserting our Seattle web site plan, dozens of engineers and product managers have already joined us to type the premise of the location. Following is an inventory of among the colleagues you may be working with:

• Zaheera Valani: Zaheera is the location lead for our Seattle engineering presence. Zaheera’s constructing out our Accomplice and Developer Platform engineering crew. She joined us from Tableau, the place she led the Knowledge Administration group.
• Kanit “Ham” Wongsuphasawat: Tech lead of our visualization crew, Ham created standard open-source visualization initiatives reminiscent of Vega-Lite, Voyager, & TensorFlow Graph Visualizer. His current submit “Constructing the Subsequent Era Visualization Instruments at Databricks” was a giant hit!
• Rong Ge: Rong leads experimentation and software program rollout infrastructure (what ought to a rollout infrastructure appear like for a whole lot of information facilities and thousands and thousands of machines?). Beforehand, she was a TLM/Uber TL for numerous elements of Google Adverts and GCP infrastructure.
• Michael Piatek: Most just lately, Michael was accountable for Colab at Google and is becoming a member of Databricks to speed up our work in notebooks & interactive computing.
• Jonathan Keller: Jonathan joins us from Google, the place he led product administration for BigQuery and might be taking over knowledge governance.
• Justin Talbot: Tech lead of our visualization crew. Justin was an Architect and Product Director at Tableau, having shipped among the hottest options reminiscent of Stage of Element Expressions.
• Anders Liu: Anders got here from Microsoft main the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) management aircraft, one of many fastest-growing companies in Azure historical past. Anders leads our OS infra crew.
• Fermin Serna: Fermin is our Chief Safety Officer and beforehand lead safety at Citrix and Google.

They’re joined by a couple of of the long-time Bricksters who’re shifting from the Bay Space to Seattle to function cultural ambassadors:

• Ihor Leshko: Ihor leads our compute material org and might be constructing out new compute material groups in Seattle. He’s ensuring that we reside by our cultural ideas: be customer-obsessed, let the information determine, personal it, and teamwork makes the dream work.
• Patrick Yang: Patrick was instrumental in integrating the Redash acquisition into Databricks and spearheads a number of efforts in Databricks SQL. He’s already speaking to Zaheera about bubble tea supply to the workplace, a protracted custom in our San Francisco HQ!
• Jake Rachleff: Jake is a tech lead within the networking crew. He’s looking out the Seattle space for the very best bagel store on the town to hold on SF’s weekly bagel Wednesdays.

Be part of us as a Seattle founding member!

We’ll be internet hosting a number of onsite occasions within the coming weeks, the place you’ll be capable of join with our engineers and managers and study extra about our tradition and efforts in Seattle. You can too try our profession web page to find out about our open roles.

Come be part of us and change into a founding member of the Seattle web site, to make knowledge and AI dramatically less complicated!