Staff Frontend Engineer - UI Platform - Seattle

🏢 About Databricks

Databricks is the Data and AI company whose unified Data + AI Platform helps more than 20,000 organizations build, scale, and govern data and AI applications. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices around the globe, it offers a lakehouse architecture and tools like Genie, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog.

🎯 The Role

As a Staff Frontend Engineer on the UI Platform team, you will set the foundation for how Databricks builds robust, scalable, and delightful products. You'll work with product management and feature teams to make insights from data simple — from loading data and visualizing results to building statistical models and deploying production artifacts.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• React, Angular, VueJs, or Ember
• TypeScript / JavaScript
• HTML & CSS
• Frontend architecture and design systems
• Cross-surface console and platform engineering

💼 What You'll Do

• Design and ship reusable UI primitives and component patterns that behave consistently across consoles.
• Define application bootstrapping and cross-surface navigation primitives with AuthZ and routing.
• Deliver unified frontend data clients and service components.
• Create, deploy, test, and upgrade platform components powering complex data exploration and visualization experiences.
• Provide reference patterns, templates, and tests that standardize portability and accelerate delivery.
• Partner with feature teams to land single-console experiences and migrations on the platform.

✅ What You'll Need

• 10+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience leading large multi-quarter efforts with customer or business impact.
• Passion for user experience, design, and front-end architecture.
• Comfortable working towards a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables.
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, VueJs, or Ember.
• Knowledge of front-end best practices including performance, accessibility, security, and usability.
• Experience building large-scale products.

🌟 Nice to Have

• Familiarity with server-side web technologies.
• A passion for current trends and best practices in frontend architecture.