Sr. Solutions Engineer - AI Natives Business

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · Field Engineering - FE Direct Emerging

This role is for a Sr. Solutions Engineer on the AI native team supporting the Digital Natives business. The engineer will collaborate with customers, product teams, and the broader customer-facing team to develop architectures and solutions using the Databricks platform and APIs. They will guide customers through the competitive landscape, best practices, and implementation, and develop technical champions. Responsibilities include partnering with the sales team, providing technical leadership, consulting on Big Data architectures, implementing proof of concepts for strategic projects spanning data engineering, data science, machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows, and validating integrations with cloud services and third-party applications. The role also involves becoming an expert in and promoting Databricks-inspired open-source projects.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems.
  2. Consult on Big Data architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects, spanning data engineering, data science and machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows. As well as validating integrations with cloud services, home grown tools, and other 3rd party applications
  3. Collaborate with your fellow Solutions Architects, using your skills to support each other and our users
  4. Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow) across the developer community.

Skills

Required

  • 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

Nice to have

  • Databricks Certification
  • Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)