Description
As an Associate Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Databricks, you'll work directly with enterprise customers to build and productionize data & AI solutions on the Databricks platform.
The impact you will have:
- Deliver production-grade systems and reference architectures, contributing reusable frameworks, tools, and best practices.
- Support strategic customers through transformational data & AI projects, from prototype through production deployment.
- 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.
What we look for:
- 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.
- Solid computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, testing, and version control.
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- 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.
- Experience with Apache Spark or distributed data processing is a plus.