Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
Databricks · Posted Oct 15
Data, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI intelligence platform services
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About the role
The Professional Services team at Databricks partners with a diverse range of customers to tackle their big data challenges on the Databricks Platform, acting as a trusted advisor across data engineering and data science workloads in multiple cloud environments. The work spans reference architectures, third-party migrations, and the design, build, and deployment of big data and AI applications. As a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, this role will deliver scalable automation utilities, provide architecture and design expertise on key customer projects, and partner with Engineering and Customer Support to drive continuous product improvements.
What you will do
- Collaborate on impactful customer big data projects, such as creating reference architectures, developing how-to guides, and building production-ready efficient, robust and scalable tools and technologies.
- Advise strategic customers on transformational big data initiatives, including third-party migrations and the complete design, build, and deployment of cutting-edge big data and AI applications.
- Provide expertise in architecture and design, and support key customer projects to ensure successful adoption and integration of Databricks solutions.
- Partner with Engineering and Customer Support teams to deliver feedback, resolve engagement-specific issues, and drive continuous product improvements.
- Simultaneously manage and guide multiple diverse projects, ensuring adherence to well-architected principles and quality standards, proactively identifying and mitigating risks, and building strong customer trust.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 15+ years experience with Big Data Technologies such as Apache Spark™, Kafka, Cloud Native and Data Lakes in a customer-facing post-sales, technical architecture or consulting role
- 6+ years of experience working on Big Data Architectures independently
- 2+ years of experience working on AI based implementations including RAG, MCP, Context engineering etc.
- Strong experience working in the Databricks ecosystem
- Comfortable writing code in either Python or Scala.
- Experience working across Cloud Platforms (GCP / AWS / Azure)
- Documentation and white-boarding skills.
- Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills that turn business problems in to reliable technical products
- Build skills in technical areas that support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions to complete customer projects.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills to collaborate with both technical and domain experts
- Highly customer-obsessed, innovative and think beyond the current world and come up with innovative solutions that can last long in the GenAI world
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
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