Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer
Databricks3 months ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead customer technical projects by delivering production-grade systems, reference architectures, custom applications, data ingestion, and ML/AI model integrations.
- Guide strategic customers through the end-to-end design, build, and deployment of big data and AI applications.
- Advise customers on architecture and design and implement or bootstrap projects to support Databricks evaluation and adoption.
- Own architecture and design decisions to ensure secure, scalable solutions aligned with customer needs and Databricks best practices.
- Coordinate with Databricks technical teams, project managers, architects, and customer teams to deliver engagement components.
- Partner with engineering and customer support to provide product feedback and resolve engagement-specific issues.
- Embed with customer teams and engage stakeholders ranging from technical individual contributors to executives.
- Create reusable accelerators, frameworks, and best practices and influence the Databricks product roadmap.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering.
- Ability to write code in Python, Scala, JavaScript, or TypeScript and work with modern frameworks.
- Working knowledge of at least two cloud ecosystems—AWS, Azure, or GCP—with expertise in at least one.
- Deep distributed computing experience with Apache Spark and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
- Working knowledge of MLOps, ML/AI models, and AI APIs.
- Experience designing and deploying performant production data architectures and applications combining data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces.
- Experience delivering technical projects, including managing scope and timelines and translating complex concepts into actionable solutions.
- Documentation and whiteboarding skills.
- Experience working with enterprise clients and managing conflicts across a broad stakeholder range.
- Databricks Certification.
- Fluent Japanese and professional working proficiency in English.
- Willingness to travel to customers 20% of the time.
Benefits
- Comprehensive employee benefits and perks are offered, with region-specific details available from Databricks.
- The role is based in Tokyo, Japan and requires travel to customers approximately 20% of the time.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Databricks
Databricks builds a cloud-based data and AI platform centered on the lakehouse architecture, combining data engineering, analytics, and machine learning with Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. It sells subscriptions and cloud services to enterprises that need to unify data pipelines and develop large-scale AI and analytics. Founded in 2013 by the creators of Apache Spark and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and serves organizations across many industries.