# Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: Melbourne, Australia; Sydney, Australia
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/databricks/jobs/8516116002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, you will embed directly with our most strategic customers to design and deliver custom full-stack applications and solutions on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and other common software stacks.

This is a hands-on, customer-facing role for software engineers, developers, and builders who thrive at the intersection of technology and business impact. The ideal candidate combines engineering expertise with adaptability, curiosity, and a passion for solving complex problems that drive measurable outcomes.

Key responsibilities include:

- Owning the architecture and leading design decisions to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with both customer needs and Databricks best practices.

- Designing and developing applications spanning backend, frontend, and integrations, bringing data and AI to life for enterprise users leveraging the Databricks platform.

- Delivering production-grade systems from data ingestion and transformation through ML/AI model integration to user-facing applications and enablement.

- Embedding with customer teams, engaging with stakeholders from technical ICs to executives to deeply understand challenges and deliver impact.

- Partnering with Sales, Product, and Field Engineering to ensure a seamless customer journey from pre-sales through post-deployment.

- Contributing accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts and influence the Databricks product roadmap.

We look for candidates with strong backgrounds in software engineering, experience across backend, frontend, and systems integration, proficiency in Python, SQL, Java/Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks, and demonstrated ability to design, build, and deploy production applications that combine data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- Java/Scala
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- modern frameworks
- data pipelines
- ML/AI models
- user-facing interfaces

### Nice to have
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Gemini
- AI code generation tools

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