Staff Technical Solutions Engineer (Apache Spark™)
Databricks
12 months ago
Bengaluru, India
Staff+
H1B Sponsor
Responsibilities
- Perform initial analysis and troubleshoot issues in Apache Spark™.
- Resolve and suggest deep code-level analysis of Spark-related customer issues.
- Assist customers in setting up reproducible Spark problems and solutions.
- Contribute to the development of tools and automation initiatives.
- Participate in the Designated Solutions Engineer program for strategic customers.
- Provide best practices guidance around Spark runtime performance.
- Support third-party integrations with the Databricks environment.
- Coordinate with various teams to address customer issues.
- Engage in screen sharing meetings and respond to internal and customer inquiries.
- Review Engineering JIRA tickets and follow up on action items.
- Manage assigned Spark cases and adhere to SLAs.
- Build and maintain internal documentation and knowledge base.
- Achieve support organization KPIs.
- Coordinate with Engineering and Backline Support teams for product defect reporting.
- Participate in on-call rotations for escalated support during outages.
- Enhance expertise in AWS/Azure and Databricks through continuous learning.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in designing and maintaining Python/Java/Scala applications.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with Big Data technologies, including Apache Spark™.
- Experience in performance tuning and troubleshooting Hive and Spark applications.
- Proven experience in JVM and Memory Management techniques.
- Working knowledge of Data Lakes and SCD use cases.
- Hands-on experience with SQL-based databases and ETL technologies.
- Linux/Unix administration skills are a plus.
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP is preferred.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills in a distributed computing environment.
Tech Stack
Apache HadoopApache HiveApache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzureDatabricksElasticsearchGoogle Cloud PlatformInformaticaJavaLinuxMicrosoft SQL ServerMySQLPythonScalaSQL
Categories
AI & MLBackendData EngineeringData Science