Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Digital Native Business

Location: Mountain View, California, United States; travel to customers 20% of the time

Salary: $182,000–$250,208 USD annually, with potential annual performance bonus and equity

Company

Databricks is a data and AI company providing a unified platform for data engineering, analytics, machine learning, applications, and AI solutions.

What you will do

• Build and productionize customer solutions spanning data engineering, AI, machine learning, and application development.
• Lead architecture and design decisions for secure, scalable, production-grade systems and reference architectures.
• Design data pipelines, integrate ML/AI models and APIs, and deliver user-facing applications.
• Guide customers through architecture, implementation, evaluation, adoption, and technical enablement.
• Collaborate with project managers, architects, engineering, support, and customer teams to deliver projects and resolve implementation issues.
• Create reusable accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale across customer engagements.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering.
• Strong coding ability in Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, or 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, including Spark runtime internals.
• Experience with CI/CD, MLOps, ML/AI models and APIs, and performant end-to-end data architectures.
• Experience delivering technical projects for enterprise clients, managing scope and timelines, documenting solutions, and working with diverse stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Databricks Certification.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to explore technologies supporting Databricks-based solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, customer-facing work at the intersection of technology and business impact.
• Cross-functional collaboration with engineering, product, developer relations, project management, and customer support.
• Comprehensive benefits and region-specific employee perks.
• Potential annual performance bonus, equity, and other benefits.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal employment opportunity and diversity.