Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Public Sector
Databricks2 days ago
Base Salary
$182k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead customer technical projects by designing and delivering production-grade data systems, reference architectures, custom applications, data ingestion, and ML/AI 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 deliver secure, scalable solutions aligned with customer needs and Databricks best practices.
- Embed with customer teams, collaborate with stakeholders from technical individual contributors through executives, and provide training and implementation support.
- Coordinate with Databricks engineering, product, project management, architecture, support, and customer teams to deliver engagements and resolve issues.
- Create reusable accelerators, frameworks, and best practices while providing feedback that influences 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 of AWS, Azure, and GCP, with expertise in at least one.
- Deep experience with distributed computing using Apache Spark, including knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
- Experience designing and deploying performant production data architectures and applications combining data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces.
- Working knowledge of MLOps, ML/AI models, AI APIs, and production deployment practices.
- Experience with technical project delivery, including scope, timelines, measurable outcomes, and translating complex concepts into actionable solutions.
- Experience working with enterprise clients and managing conflicts across broad stakeholder groups, along with strong documentation and whiteboarding skills.
- U.S. government Top Secret clearance is required for classified-information access; candidates with active Secret or higher clearance are encouraged to apply.
- Databricks Certification is required.
- Willingness to travel to customers approximately 20% of the time.
Benefits
- The role is based in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, or Virginia metropolitan area and includes periodic on-site work and client collaboration.
- Approximately 20% travel to customers is required.
- Databricks offers comprehensive employee benefits and perks, with region-specific details provided separately.
- The total compensation package may include an annual performance bonus and equity in addition to base salary.
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).