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San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer - New Grad, Distributed Data Systems (2026 Start)

Graduate Program
Technology & Digital
Software engineering
Posted:
December 29, 2025

Databricks

Data intelligence platform for businesses
77.5
Palpable Score
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At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are central to their own missions.

Our mission at Databricks is to radically simplify the whole data lifecycle from ingestion to ETL, BI, and all the way up to ML/AI with a unified platform. To achieve this goal, we believe the data warehouse architecture as we know it today will be replaced by a new architectural pattern, Lakehouse (CIDR 2021 paper), open platforms that unify data warehousing and advanced analytics. The new architecture will help address several major challenges, including data staleness, reliability, total cost of ownership, data lock-in, and limited use-case support.

As part of this team, you could be working in one or more of the following areas:

What we look for:

We are hiring Software Engineer - New Grads, Distributed Data Systems across multiple offices. Please apply for the single location that you're the most interested in, and we will discuss more with you as you move through the process. We can only consider one application in 30 days.

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

$145,000—$155,000 USD

About the company

Databricks

Company overview
Databricks builds a cloud platform used by data teams to run analytics, data engineering, and AI workloads in one place, often described as a “lakehouse” approach. The company sells to enterprises that want to unify data pipelines, BI, and machine learning on major clouds. Databricks is closely associated with Apache Spark’s origins and supports open-source projects used widely in data engineering and ML workflows. The company’s customers range from large enterprises to fast-growing tech companies building data products.

Locations and presence

Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco and lists many offices across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. The company describes a hybrid setup built around weekly “Team Day” in-office time, with most work happening from home, and notes that some roles are fully remote.

Palpable Score

77.5
/ 100
Databricks offers clear, recurring entry points for students and new grads, and the company backs that up with cohort-style roles and explicit mentorship language in early-career job postings. Databricks also publishes candidate-facing guidance on the hiring process and shares pay bands on at least some early-career roles, which is a practical signal of transparency. The main limiter is mixed public candidate and employee feedback on consistency, especially around responsiveness and clarity of progression, and the lack of published early-career outcomes data.
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