Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Applications
- Salary
- $198,200 - $272,600
- Level
- Staff
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 3 October 2026.
About the role
P-1578
About Us:
The Web Engineering team at Databricks builds and owns the public-facing web experiences that represent Databricks to the world, across databricks.com, the blog, landing pages, hubs, microsites, and event properties. We are rebuilding the platform from the ground up, AI native from the start, and pioneering an agentic SDLC as our operating model.
The Role:
As Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Agents on the Web Engineering team, you will own the architecture and delivery of agents that transform how Databricks creates, publishes, and ships for the web, shifting content operations from a linear, engineering-dependent process to an orchestrated, continuously improving system. You will define how LLM-powered agents participate reliably across marketing content workflows, set the engineering standards the team builds on, and ensure agent output is robust, observable, and production-ready at scale.
The impact you’ll have:
- Own the architecture and delivery of agentic workflows that enable marketing to self-serve content creation and publishing across blogs, landing pages, microsites, and social, working directly with marketing stakeholders to understand their workflows, define quality criteria, and build tools they trust and use
- Partner with the Web Platform Staff Engineer on CMS architecture to ensure the content model supports agent read and write workflows and that agent-generated content is structured for AI-driven discovery at production scale
- Build and own the agent reliability system for this domain: define output quality criteria per workflow, implement eval suites and behavioral regression testing, and build feedback loops that improve agent output over time based on what marketers approve, edit, and reject
- Architect human in the loop review as a system property across the full publishing pipeline: proposal and commit separation, diff-based review UI, approval routing, notification system, and audit logging that govern when agents publish autonomously and when human judgment is required
- Encode brand, legal, and compliance constraints as enforceable guardrails within agent workflows, ensuring agents operate within defined boundaries without requiring human intervention on every decision
- Partner with the Web Products Staff Engineer to ensure agent-generated content meets surface quality and brand standards across databricks.com
- Mentor and grow the Senior Engineer on the team, setting the standard for production-grade agentic engineering at Databricks
What we look for:
- 12+ years of software engineering experience with a clear track record of technical ownership on production systems
- Hands-on experience building and operating LLM-powered systems in production, and a strong instinct for designing quality and evaluation frameworks for probabilistic or generative outputs
- Strong understanding of human in the loop system design: approval workflows, review interfaces, audit logging, and guardrail implementation
- Deep understanding of how agents interact with content systems, publishing pipelines, and web infrastructure including CMS, deployment pipelines, and edge delivery
- Ability to work directly with non-engineering stakeholders to translate workflow requirements into agent architecture
- Experience mentoring engineers and elevating technical execution across a team
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location.
Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
Zone 1 Pay Range
$198,200—$272,600 USD
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About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.
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The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 44 open in Engineering. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in June: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Databricks (44 of 44), Unity (44 of 44), Azure (20 of 44), AWS (16 of 44), GCP (15 of 44), Machine Learning (13 of 44), LLM (12 of 44)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Sr. Manager, Engineering - AI/BI posted Oct 2
- Senior Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure posted Sep 14
- Staff Software Engineer – Genie One Mobile & Desktop posted Sep 9
- Engineering Manager, App Traffic posted Sep 9
- Senior Engineering Manager for Self-Serve (Learning) posted Aug 21
- Engineering Manager, CustomerLake Profile Agents posted Aug 13
- Staff Software Engineer- Foundation Model Inference posted Jul 24
- Sr Software Engineer- CXI posted Jul 15
- Senior Software Engineer, AI Native Web Platform posted Jul 15
- Staff Software Engineer, AI Native Web Platform posted Jul 15
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, CustomerLake (ML/LLM) posted Jun 30
- Engineering Manager, Serverless Compute Platform posted Jun 22
- Staff Software Engineer, AI Runtime posted Jun 8
- Senior Software Engineer, AI Runtime posted Jun 8
- Staff Software Engineer, AI Search posted Jun 4
- Sr. Staff Software Engineer — Observability, Insights & Governance posted Jun 2
- Sr. Staff Software Engineer — Observability, Insights & Governance posted Jun 2
- Sr. Manager, Engineering Configuration Platform Team posted May 28
- Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer - Context Retrieval posted May 7
- Sr Staff Production Engineer- Public Sector posted Apr 22
- Staff Production Engineer- Public Sector posted Apr 22
- Staff Software Engineer- Public Sector posted Apr 21
- Sr. Engineering Manager - Agentic Service Platform posted Apr 20
- Staff Backend Software Engineer- (Databricks AI) posted Mar 31
- Engineering Manager - Databricks SQL Control Plane posted Mar 20
- Staff Backend Software Engineer posted Mar 18
- Sr. Engineering Manager - Customer Experience Intelligence (CXI) posted Feb 25
- Staff Software Engineer - Backend posted Jan 29
- Sr. Software Engineer- Backend posted Jan 16
- Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Money Team posted Nov 12
- Senior Software Engineer, Model Serving posted Oct 14
- Sr Software Engineer-Networking posted Oct 14
- Sr Software Engineer-Networking posted Oct 14
- Sr. Engineering Manager - Notebook Dataplane posted Sep 29
- Manager, Engineering - AI/BI posted Sep 19
- Senior Engineering Manager for Workspace Platform posted Jun 12
- Sr. Manager, Engineering - Search posted Apr 15
- Senior Software Engineer - Partner Ecosystem posted Apr 3
- Senior Staff Software Engineer - App and Partner Ecosystem posted Mar 19
- Sr Designated Support Engineer posted Jan 30
- Senior Manager, Infrastructure Data Science posted Nov 18
- Senior Manager, Infrastructure Data Science posted Nov 18
- Senior Software Engineer - Backend posted Jun 1
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