Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Digital Native Business
About the role
The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role involves working with customers to build and productionize solutions to their data and AI challenges using the Databricks Platform. Responsibilities include owning the architecture, leading design decisions, and implementing end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development.
Responsibilities
- Lead impactful customer technical projects by delivering production-grade systems, designing and building reference architectures, custom applications and data ingestion and ML/AI model integration
- Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects including end-to-end design, build and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications
- Work with engagement managers to scope technical delivery work with input from the customer
- Guide customers on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement customer projects which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks
- Own the architecture, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with both customer needs and Databricks best practices
- Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts and influence the Databricks product roadmap
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering
- Comfortable writing code in either Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks
- Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one
- Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark™ and knowledge of Spark runtime internals
- Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments
- Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope, timelines and measurable outcomes, translating complex concepts into actionable solutions
- Documentation and white-boarding skills
- Experience working with enterprise clients and managing conflicts across a broad stakeholder range
- Build skills in technical areas, and demonstrate curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to explore new technologies which support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions to complete customer projects
- Travel to customers 20% of the time
Qualifications
- Databricks Certification
Skills
- Technical project delivery
- Customer immersion
- Technical project management
- Technical documentation
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks
Pay
- Pay Range Transparency
Schedule
- Travel to customers 20% of the time
Company Information
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow.