Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead impactful customer technical projects by delivering production-grade systems and reference architectures
• Design and build custom applications, data ingestion, and ML/AI model integrations
• Guide strategic customers through the implementation of big data and AI applications
• Own architecture and design decisions to ensure solutions are secure and scalable
• Collaborate with Engineering and Customer Support to provide product feedback and resolve issues
• Embed with customer teams to understand challenges and deliver measurable impact
• Contribute reusable accelerators, frameworks, and best practices to scale impact

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, analytics, or software engineering
• Proficiency in Python, Scala, JavaScript, or TypeScript
• Working knowledge of at least one major cloud ecosystem (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Deep experience with Apache Spark and Spark runtime internals
• Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments
• Working knowledge of MLOps, ML/AI models, and AI APIs
• Experience managing technical project delivery, scope, and timelines
• Ability to travel to customers approximately 20% of the time

Preferred Qualifications

• Databricks Certification

About the Company

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow.