Sr. Solutions Engineer - Digital Native Business (Strategic Accounts)

Location: Remote in California, Colorado, Oregon, or Washington

Salary: $152,300–$209,450 USD annually

Company

Databricks provides a unified Data and AI Platform for data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and AI applications.

What you will do

• Lead technical discovery and solution design for customer workloads across data engineering, analytics, and machine learning.
• Build and deliver proofs-of-concept, live demonstrations, notebooks, solution accelerators, and reference architectures.
• Own technical relationships with customer engineers, data teams, and technical leads.
• Develop account-level technical strategies with the Account Executive to expand platform consumption.
• Present Databricks differentiation through hands-on demonstrations and competitive evaluations.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering, solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, or hands-on consulting.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, including debugging, optimization, and production-quality coding.
• Experience designing and implementing data solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Working knowledge of distributed data systems such as Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Hadoop, Kafka, or Flink.
• Experience leading customer discovery, whiteboarding, architecture reviews, presentations, and technical demonstrations.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Databricks certification or experience with the Databricks Platform.
• Experience with Unity Catalog, Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines, or MLflow.
• Background at a data or AI company, cloud provider, or technical consulting firm.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work is available within the specified U.S. states.
• Benefits and perks are offered according to the employee's region.
• Annual performance bonus and equity may be included in the compensation package.
• Inclusive hiring practices and a diverse workplace.

Hiring process

• Recruiter screen and hiring manager screen.
• Design and architecture interview, followed by a live coding assessment.
• Build, Demo, Pitch! presentation and reference check.