Sr. Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
Embeds with strategic customers to architect and deliver production-grade full-stack applications on the Databricks platform, spanning data engineering, AI/ML integration, and user-facing development. Requires strong software engineering breadth, enterprise delivery experience, and executive-level communication.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture: Lead architecture and design decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with customer needs and Databricks best practices.
- Application engineering: Design and develop applications spanning backend, frontend, and integrations, bringing data and AI to enterprise users on the Databricks platform.
- Solution delivery: Deliver production-grade systems from data ingestion and transformation through ML/AI model integration to user-facing applications and enablement.
- Customer immersion: Embed with customer teams and engage stakeholders from technical individual contributors to executives to understand challenges and deliver impact.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with Sales, Product, and Field Engineering throughout the customer journey, from pre-sales through post-deployment.
- Reusable assets and scale: Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts and influence the product roadmap.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering background with experience across backend, frontend, and systems integration.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, Java or Scala, JavaScript or TypeScript, and modern frameworks.
- Experience designing, building, and deploying production applications combining data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces.
- Familiarity integrating AI APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini into applications.
- Experience using AI code-generation tools to accelerate productivity.
- Proven record of delivering technical solutions in enterprise environments with measurable outcomes.
- Ability to engage stakeholders ranging from engineers to C-level executives and translate complex concepts into actionable solutions.
- Curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to explore new technologies, domains, and customer challenges.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and perks are offered, with details varying by region.
Skills
Python, SQL, Java, Scala, JavaScript, TypeScript, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Data Pipelines, Databricks, Systems Integration
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