At Databricks, we’re passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world’s toughest problems — from accelerating medical breakthroughs to building the next generation of intelligent products. We do this by creating the world’s best Data Intelligence Platform, empowering customers to turn massive data into deep, actionable insights.
Founded by engineers and driven by innovation, we’re obsessed with designing intuitive, high-performance user experiences that make complex data exploration simple and approachable.
As a Senior Frontend Engineer focused on Dashboards, you’ll build intuitive and scalable end-to-end experiences that help users create, explore, and share insights from data. You’ll work across the frontend, partnering with designers, product managers, and engineers to develop the next generation of dashboards, interactivity, and analytical workflows within Databricks.
What You’ll Do
- Design and build intuitive, high-performance experiences for creating and editing dashboards, as well as for authoring the data behind them, including SQL datasets, custom calculations, and semantic modeling.
- Partner closely with design and product to translate complex analytical concepts into polished, intuitive, and efficient dashboard experiences.
- Drive innovation in how Databricks users interact with data, enabling seamless and responsive exploration at scale.
- Own frontend development for core dashboard workflows, with a focus on usability, performance, accessibility, and reliability.
- Help shape the architecture, abstractions, and platform foundations that support a broad range of dashboarding and analytical use cases.
- Collaborate with backend engineers and adjacent teams to define APIs, data models, and contracts that power interactive and scalable dashboard experiences.
What We Look For
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong experience building both frontend and backend systems.
- Expertise in modern frontend development with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and React, or similar frameworks.
- Deep understanding of UX principles, accessibility, and responsive design for data-heavy interfaces.
- Experience designing scalable systems and abstractions that support interactive, high-performance product experiences.
- Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and deliver impactful user-facing features.
- Experience building dashboards, analytics, data exploration, authoring tools, or business intelligence products is a plus.
- Familiarity with SQL authoring, custom calculations, semantic modeling, or related analytical workflows is a plus.
- Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or Kubernetes is preferred.
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.
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