Staff Software Engineer, Data Collection (Tags & SDKs)

<p>P-1607<br><br>At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world&39;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&39;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&39;re only getting started.</p> <p>First-party data collection is the entry point for everything downstream. It also runs on other people&39;s websites and inside other people&39;s apps, which raises the bar from a quality, reliability, and development experience. We are looking for an engineer to lead that surface, client and server side.</p> <h3><strong>The impact you&39;ll have:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Lead the collection stack end to end: browser tag, mobile SDKs, server-side endpoints, and the ingest path behind them</li> <li>Define the schema and versioning contract, including compatibility across SDK versions already in the field</li> <li>Lead identity handling that spans anonymous and authenticated records, across devices and sessions</li> <li>Lead integrations with other CustomerLake products like Profile & Campaign Agents</li> <li>Hold hard budgets on page weight, latency, and failure behavior, so that collection never degrades the host application</li> <li>Partner closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build intuitive, scalable, and extensible solutions that drive user & business growth</li> </ul> <h3><strong>What we