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 beautiful.
As a Senior Frontend Engineer focused on Data Visualization, you’ll craft interactive and scalable visual experiences that help users explore, analyze, and share insights from data at a massive scale. You’ll work closely with designers, product managers, and backend engineers to build the next generation of visualization frameworks, dashboards, and analytical interfaces within Databricks.
What You’ll Do
- Design and build intuitive, performant interfaces for visual data exploration — from rich dashboards and charts to text to SQL products.
- Develop reusable visualization components and frameworks using technologies like React, TypeScript, Vega/Vega-Lite, D3.js, or ECharts.
- Collaborate with design and product teams to translate complex analytical concepts into delightful visual experiences.
- Drive innovation in how Databricks users interact with data — enabling visualization of billions of rows seamlessly and responsively.
- Own the end-to-end user experience of visualization workflows, including performance, accessibility, and responsiveness.
- Contribute to UI architecture and design systems that support a wide range of visualization and dashboarding use cases.
- Partner with backend teams to define APIs and data contracts optimized for real-time, interactive visual analytics.
What We Look For
- 5+ years of professional experience in frontend development with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Expertise in React (or similar modern frameworks such as Vue or Angular).
- Strong background in data visualization libraries or frameworks (e.g., D3.js, Vega/Vega-Lite, ECharts, Plotly).
- Deep understanding of UX principles, accessibility, and responsive design for data-heavy interfaces.
- Experience in architecting and shipping large-scale, high-performance visualization systems.
- Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and deliver impactful user-facing features.
- Passion for transforming complex data and analytics into intuitive, visual stories.
- Familiarity with server-side or API technologies (Node.js, Python, or Java) is a plus.
- Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, or Kubernetes) preferred.
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range 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 anticpates 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.
Canada Pay Range$145,000—$191,000 CAD
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, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks.
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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