Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Retail
Databricks2 months ago
Base Salary
$182k - $250k/yr
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.
- Own architecture and design decisions to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with customer needs and Databricks best practices.
- Embed with customer teams, integrate with client systems, train stakeholders, and address other technical needs.
- Coordinate with Databricks technical teams, project managers, architects, customer teams, engineering, and customer support to deliver engagements and resolve issues.
- Provide product and implementation feedback and contribute 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 end-to-end 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.
- Curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to explore technologies supporting Databricks-based solution deployment and integration.
- Databricks Certification.
- Willingness to travel to customers 20% of the time.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks are offered, with region-specific details available.
- Travel to customers approximately 20% of the time.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Databricks
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).