Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE (Fullstack)
Databricks13 hours ago
Zürich, SwitzerlandSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead customer technical projects and deliver production-grade data, AI, and application systems.
- Design and implement reference architectures, custom applications, data ingestion, and ML/AI model integrations.
- Own architecture and design decisions for secure, scalable solutions aligned with customer needs and Databricks best practices.
- Guide customers through architecture, implementation, evaluation, adoption, and transformational data and AI projects.
- Coordinate technical delivery with project managers, architects, Databricks teams, and customer stakeholders.
- Provide product and implementation feedback and help resolve engagement-specific product and support issues.
- Embed with customer teams and engage stakeholders ranging from technical individual contributors to executives.
- Contribute reusable accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale across accounts and influence the Databricks product roadmap.
Requirements
- 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 among AWS, Azure, and GCP, with expertise in at least one.
- Deep experience with distributed computing using 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 pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces.
- Experience delivering technical projects, managing scope and timelines, and translating complex concepts into actionable solutions.
- Experience working with enterprise clients and managing conflicts across broad stakeholder groups.
- Strong documentation and whiteboarding skills, along with curiosity and adaptability when exploring technologies for Databricks-based solutions.
- Databricks Certification.
- Ability to travel to customers 20% of the time.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks are offered, with details varying by region.
- The role involves 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.