Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE (Fullstack)

About the role

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work directly with customers to build and productionize solutions to their data and AI challenges using the Databricks platform. You will own the architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development. This is a hands-on, customer-facing role that requires a blend of engineering expertise and the ability to drive business impact.

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
• Guide customers on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement customer projects which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks
• Lead architecture and design decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with both customer needs and Databricks best practices
• Work with the Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect and Customer team to ensure the technical components of the engagement are delivered to meet customer's needs
• Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and to guide rapid resolution for engagement specific product and support issues
• Embed with customer teams, engaging with stakeholders from technical ICs to executives to deeply understand challenges and deliver impact
• Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts and influence the Databricks product roadmap

Required skills

• Python
• Scala
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• Apache Spark
• CI/CD
• MLOps
• AI models
• Data engineering
• Data architecture

Certifications

• Databricks Certification

About the Company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.