Senior Solutions Engineer
Databricks · Posted Oct 6
Data, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI intelligence platform services
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About the role
Databricks builds a unified Data Intelligence Platform that makes data science and analytics accessible, with a customer-centric and innovation-focused culture. The team partners with enterprise clients to demonstrate how the platform solves complex data challenges across the cloud ecosystem and third-party applications. This Senior Solutions Engineer role works in pre-sales with an Account Executive and Senior Solutions Architect, driving hands-on evaluations, Spark programming, architecture guidance, and reference architectures for customers.
What you will do
- Form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory to provide technical and business value in collaboration with an Account Executive and a Senior Solutions Architect.
- Gain excitement from clients about Databricks through hands-on evaluation and Spark programming, integrating with the wider cloud ecosystem and 3rd party applications.
- Contribute to building the Databricks technical community through engagement at workshops, seminars, and meet-ups.
- Become a Big Data Analytics advisor on aspects of architecture and design.
- Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications.
- Develop both technically and in the pre-sales aspect with the goal of becoming an independently operating Solutions Architect.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Familiarity working with clients, creating a narrative, answering customer questions, aligning the agenda with important interests, and achieving tangible outcomes.Ability to independently deliver a technical proposition, identify customers' pain-points, and explain important areas for business value to develop a trusted advisor skillset.
- Code in a core programming language such as Python or SQL.
- Knowledgeable in a core Big Data Analytics domain with some exposure to advanced proofs-of-concept and an understanding of a major public cloud platform.
- Experience diving deeper into solution architecture and Data Engineering.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Databricks
Databricks is a data and artificial intelligence company that provides a unified Data Intelligence Platform built on a lakehouse architecture. The platform combines data engineering, data warehousing, machine learning, and generative AI to help organizations manage and scale their data assets natively across major cloud providers. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark, Databricks enables thousands of enterprises worldwide to power advanced analytics, business intelligence, and autonomous AI agents.
- Industry
- Data and AI Platform Software
- Company size
- 17300+ employees
- Founded
- 2013
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Private Company
Funding
Private Company · $25.2B raised
- 2026-08-13Series L$5.0B
Leadership
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Co-founder and Executive Chairman
Chief Financial Officer
Co-founder and Chief Architect
Recent coverage
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