Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Public Sector
Databricksabout 2 hours ago
Base Salary
$182k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Handle customer technical projects by designing reference architectures, creating how-to documentation, and productionizing customer use cases.
- Scope professional services work with engagement managers and customers.
- Guide strategic customers through transformational big data projects and third-party migrations, including end-to-end design, build, and deployment of data and AI applications.
- Consult on architecture and design and implement customer projects to support Databricks evaluation, adoption, and successful use.
- Provide escalated support for customer operational issues.
- Collaborate with technical, project management, architecture, and customer teams to deliver engagement components according to customer needs.
- Work with Engineering and Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and resolve engagement-specific issues.
Requirements
- U.S. Secret clearance or above is required.
- At least 6 years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, and analytics.
- Ability to write code in Python or Scala.
- Working knowledge of at least two common cloud ecosystems—AWS, Azure, or GCP—with expertise in at least one.
- Deep experience with distributed computing using Apache Spark and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
- Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments and working knowledge of MLOps.
- Experience designing and deploying performant end-to-end data architectures.
- Experience with technical project delivery, including managing scope and timelines.
- Documentation and white-boarding skills.
- Experience working with clients and managing conflicts.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
- Ability to travel up to 30% when needed.
Benefits
- Ability to travel up to 30% when needed
- Comprehensive employee benefits and perks, with region-specific details available
Tech Stack
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).