# Senior Data Scientist

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Data Science
**Salary:** $123k – $218k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Python, Scala, R, SQL, Spark, Hadoop, Machine Learning, Data Visualization, Product Analytics, Statistical Modeling
**Posted:** 2026-05-27

> Senior Data Scientist building data-driven products and product analytics at Databricks. Works with PM, Sales, and CS stakeholders on usage forecasting and funnel analysis; mentors junior data scientists.

## Job Description

## Impact

- Shape the direction of key data science areas including usage forecasting, product analytics, user behavior and funnel analysis.
- Work closely with Product Management, Sales, Customer Success and other stakeholders to understand product usage patterns and trends and to make data-driven decisions and forecasts.
- Manage stakeholders for their focus area - gather changing requirements, define project OKRs and milestones, and communicate progress and results to a non-technical audience.
- Mentor and guide data-scientists on the team by helping with project planning, technical decisions, and code and document review.
- Build self-serving internal data products to make data simple within the company.

## Requirements

- Experience in applying Data Science / ML in production to build data-driven products for solving business problems.
- Familiarity with Product Analytics - understanding and tracking customer and user behaviour using lenses like adoption, churn, cohorts and funnel analysis.
- Experience collaborating with and understanding the needs of stakeholders from a variety of business functions.
- Strong coding skills in general purpose languages like Scala or Python, and familiarity with software engineering principles around testing, code reviews and deployment.
- Proficient in data analysis and visualization using tools like R and Python.
- Experience with distributed data processing systems like Spark and Hadoop, and proficiency in SQL.
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, or a related field.

## Nice-to-Haves

- Experience mentoring other data scientists.

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