Associate Forward Deployed Engineer

As an Associate Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Databricks youll be in a hands-on customer-facing role for builders who thrive at the intersection of technology and business impact. Youll work directly with enterprise customers to build and productionize data & AI solutions on the Databricks platform. This early-career role is ideal for a strong software engineer looking to grow into a technical leader. You will embed with customer teams ship production-grade systems and learn the Databricks platform deeply alongside senior FDEs and our engineering organization.

• Production Solution Delivery: Deliver production-grade systems and reference architectures contributing reusable frameworks tools and best practices along the way.
• Transformational Impact: Support strategic customers through transformational data & AI projects from prototype through production deployment.
• Own the Architecture: Contribute to architecture and design decisions for secure scalable full-stack solutions on the Databricks platform.
• Embed with customer teams to understand their technical and business challenges and help deliver measurable impact.
• Collaborate closely with senior FDEs Databricks engineering and customer support to unblock customers and feed learnings back into the product.
• Manage technical scope and timelines for your workstreams growing toward end-to-end delivery ownership.
• Work with the Databricks technical team Project Manager Architect and Customer team to ensure the technical components of the engagement are delivered to meet customers needs.

• 2 years of experience in software engineering data engineering or data platforms & analytics.
• Strong full-stack software engineering skills proficiency in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript and comfort working across back-end services APIs and modern front-end frameworks.
• Solid computer science fundamentals: data structures algorithms testing and version control.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS Azure or GCP) or a strong desire to develop cloud expertise quickly.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and an interest in production data architectures and MLOps ML/AI models and AI APIs.
• Excellent communication skills and a genuine interest in customer-facing engineering work.
• 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.
• Experience with Apache Spark or distributed data processing is a plus. Well help you build platform depth on the job.
• Databricks Certification is a plus and can be obtained after joining.

Databricks is a data and AI company. More than 10000 organizations worldwide rely on Databricks 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.

Recent graduate: Wed love for you to explore our current internship openings on our careers page and submit your application for our roles designed for new college graduates.

This role is based in our Mountain View CA office. Travel to customers is expected approximately 20% of the time.

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