Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Digital Native Business
Databricks9 hours ago
Base Salary
$182k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead customer technical projects by designing and delivering production-grade data, AI, and application systems.
- Own architecture and design decisions for secure, scalable solutions aligned with customer needs and Databricks best practices.
- Design and deploy end-to-end data architectures, pipelines, ML/AI integrations, and user-facing applications.
- Guide customers through implementation, evaluation, adoption, technical training, and architecture decisions.
- Coordinate technical delivery with Databricks engineering, product, project management, architecture, support, and customer teams.
- Embed with customer stakeholders ranging from technical individual contributors to executives to understand challenges and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Contribute reusable accelerators, frameworks, and best practices while providing product and implementation feedback.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering.
- Ability to write code in Python, Scala, JavaScript, TypeScript, or 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 data 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, adaptability, and eagerness to learn new technologies.
- Databricks Certification.
- Willingness to travel to customers 20% of the time.
Benefits
- Databricks offers comprehensive regional benefits and perks; specific details vary by location.
- 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.