Databricks

Staff Designated Support Engineer

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3 months ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$102k - $181k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis for Spark, SQL, Delta, streaming, and Databricks runtime performance and reliability issues.
  • Discover monitoring requirements and collaborate with R&D and NOC teams to optimize customer environments.
  • Build rapid proofs of concept and test, deploy, and monitor Databricks Engineering solutions for customer challenges.
  • Develop playbooks and maintain knowledge bases for Spark, ML, and AI workflows.
  • Train customer teams on performance tuning, debugging, and Databricks best practices.
  • Pilot process improvements, collaborate cross-functionally, advocate for customers, and serve as a primary technical point of contact.
  • Support onsite customer engagements and technical presentations with Field Engineering, Sales, and Product teams.

Requirements

  • 8–12 years of experience designing, building, and troubleshooting distributed computing applications.
  • At least 4 years of experience delivering production-scale Spark, ML, or AI solutions using Python, Java, or Scala.
  • Hands-on expertise with data lakes, SQL-based databases, and cloud data warehousing or ETL tools such as Snowflake, Redshift, and BigQuery.
  • Deep knowledge of Spark internals, Delta or Iceberg, JVM optimization, memory management, and AI ecosystems including machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI.
  • Practical experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and alerting systems.
  • 3–5 years of customer-facing experience in roles such as Technical Account Manager or Solutions Architect.
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, relationship-building, collaboration, documentation, and leadership abilities.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and perks are offered, with region-specific details available separately.

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftApache SparkAWSAzureDatabricksGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaMLflowPythonScalaSnowflakeSQL

Categories

Data EngineeringSolutions Engineering
Databricks

About Databricks

5,001-10,000 employees

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).

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