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The Databricks Data Engineer
by Jakub Lasak
Today: #178 in Technology, Japan on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Castbox |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22 | #178 | #177 | — |
| Oct 21 | #122 | #130 | #92 |
Latest episodes
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Unity Catalog Can't Manufacture Trust: Your Most-Read Databricks Table Might Be the Least Trusted
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Your Databricks director: what they fear, why they fund the duller proposal, what gets yours through
October 12, 2026 · 12 minTwo proposals sit on a head of data's desk, both about the nightly pipeline that feeds the finance dashboard. One swaps the full reload for incremental loads with Auto Loader: it finishes in a fraction of the time and it's cheaper every…
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Data skew is a checkout line - how to unjam Databricks jobs without bigger clusters
October 5, 2026 · 12 minYour nightly Databricks job ran long, so you open the Spark UI. Two hundred tasks. One hundred ninety-nine finished in about a minute. One is still running, and it's been running for forty. You double the cluster and rerun it. Same forty…
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Can You Reach Senior Databricks Engineer Without Ever Leading an Architecture Review?
September 28, 2026 · 11 minSam is four years into a Databricks role, up for senior this cycle. Merged pull requests on the ingestion layer. The nightly job he rescued at three in the morning when the orders table stopped landing. Then his manager asks for one call…
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Why Databricks serverless exists, and which of your jobs should stay on classic clusters
September 21, 2026 · 12 minOpen the workspace. Start a cluster. Get coffee. Come back, and sometimes it's ready. If you've been doing this a few years you can feel that wait in your shoulders, and it's the least interesting part of the story. Before any of it, you…
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How Databricks engineers lose the final round (and the 4 places it happens)
September 14, 2026 · 11 minYou cleared the recruiter screen. You cleared the Databricks technical round, and cleared it well. Then the final round, then the email that says strong candidate, tough decision. You go back looking for the mistake and there isn't one…
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The real reason your Databricks week never got simpler - it isn't the lakehouse
September 7, 2026 · 12 minYour org finished the migration. Two systems became one. The nightly copy nobody wanted to own is gone, and so is the quarterly meeting where finance and the data science team each showed up with a real revenue number from tables in…
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The Databricks incident where the most senior engineer never touched the keyboard
August 31, 2026 · 12 minThursday, just after two in the afternoon. The first message doesn't come from an alert, it comes from a person in revenue operations: the biggest region jumped overnight and nobody sold anything new. Nobody answers. The engineer who owns…
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9 Databricks decisions that reveal your real seniority (and one that only looks senior)
August 24, 2026 · 12 minThree in the morning. The nightly job that loads the orders table died halfway. Half the tasks are green, and the rerun button is right there. What you do in the next ten seconds says more about your level than anything on your…
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The Databricks job market in 2026: there are two of them, and only one answers
August 17, 2026 · 11 minOne engineer tells you hiring is back and recruiters are warm again. The next one is sixty applications deep and hearing nothing. Same month, same platform, sometimes the same city. That sounds like noise. It isn't. It's a split, and what…
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Databricks broadcast joins: when the memo beats the meeting (and when it kills a task)
August 10, 2026 · 11 minTwo engineers on the same team join the same big orders table to the same small lookup table. Same cluster, same data, one line of code different. Sarah's finishes in the time it takes to get a coffee. Mike's dies, and the error isn't…
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Build the platform or use the platform: the two Databricks data engineer tracks nobody names
August 4, 2026 · 12 minTwo Databricks engineers sit at adjacent desks. Same title, same pay, same words in the ladder document. Watch a year go by, and they are not doing the same job. Both get rated strong. Both get told they're ready for more scope. Nobody…
About the show
Short episodes on the Databricks skills that get data engineers hired and promoted. One theme per episode, built for a commute: how senior engineers make the calls, what interviews actually test, and the career moves that change your level. By Jakub, a Databricks Data Engineer (ex-Uber).