Job description
While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered. #LI-REMOTE
As a Sr. Solutions Engineer on the Digital Natives (DNB) team, you’ll help shape the future of Data and AI by working with top data engineering, data platform, and ML / AI teams. In the 12+ month Digital Natives SA Residency Program, you’ll gain hands-on experience through immersive rotations with your team of seasoned Solutions Architects, focusing on strategic Digital Native accounts. This program is designed to develop mid-level technologists into skilled Solutions Architects, with each rotation emphasizing collaboration, continuous learning, and problem-solving.
Reporting to the Field Engineering Manager, you’ll work with customers, product teams, and others to build architectures, guide implementations, and develop technical champions.
The impact you will have:
- You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems.
- Consult on Data & AI architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects, spanning the Databricks platform and broader Data and AI ecosystem.
- Collaborate with your fellow Solutions Architects, using your skills to support each other and our customers
- Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and MLflow) across the developer community.
What we look for:
- 3+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role
- Experience building distributed data systems
- Comfortable programming in, and debugging, Python and SQL
- Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Expertise in one of the following:
- Data Engineering technologies ( Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)
- Data Science and Machine Learning technologies ( Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, pytorch, Tensorflow)
- Available to travel to customers in your region
- [Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)
- Nice to have: Databricks Certification
NOTE: If your experience isn’t a perfect match for the job description, but you feel like you’re a good fit for the role, apply. We want to work with smart, passionate, people who are good at their job, and, a lot of times, those people have non-linear career paths.
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
Local Pay Range
$95,500—$133,750 USD
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform 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. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
BenefitsAt Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
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