Staff Data & AI Technical Solutions Engineer

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Dallas, TX · Support

Staff Data & AI Technical Solutions Engineer role at Databricks, focusing on driving and mentoring others in producing Data & AI technical solutions for customer issues. Requires deep expertise in Data & AI architectures, production environments, and troubleshooting complex customer situations, including deep dives into code and systems architecture related to Databricks products like Spark, Delta, DLT, and Model Serving. The role involves serving as a customer support advisor, influencing engineering for product improvements, and acting as a technical expert and leader within the support organization.

What you'd actually do

  1. Be directly responsible for leading and driving technical solutions for a breadth of complex problems reported by Databricks customers, including escalated and critical scenarios.
  2. Deep Dive into code-level analysis and systems architecture of customer workloads to address issues related to Databricks products - including Spark core internals, Spark SQL, Delta, DLT, and Model Serving.
  3. Serve as a customer support advisor - be able to diffuse escalations during incidents directly with customer stakeholders, quickly find mitigations and solutions for advanced use cases, and be strategic at helping prevent future customer issues.
  4. Help make the Databricks products simpler to use and customer production environments more stable, such as by influencing Engineering and Backline Support teams to identify areas for product improvements.
  5. Be known as a deep technical expert and leader in the Databricks platform and productionizing systems, and mentor others in those areas to spread your knowledge.

Skills

Required

  • 8 years of experience in designing, building, testing, and maintaining data pipelines
  • Relevant past Spark experience
  • Expertise in SQL databases or data warehouses (such as Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server, MySQL)
  • Expertise in ETL technologies (such as Informatica, DataStage, Talend, Fivetran)
  • 5 years of hands-on experience in developing two or more Big Data technologies, such as Spark & Hadoop, Lakehouse architecture - such as Delta, Data Ingestion, Data Streaming applications, or ML/AI applications for industry use cases
  • Around 3 years of hands-on experience as a technical lead on a Data & AI Engineering team
  • Technical degree or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field/experience
  • United States citizens on United States Soil only
  • FedRAMP High baseline

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

What the JD emphasized

  • deep expertise in Data & AI architectures
  • complex production environments
  • critical production downtime situations
  • deep technical expert and leader
  • deep Dive into code-level analysis and systems architecture
  • resolve critical issues
  • U.S. Citizenship Requirement
  • United States citizens on United States Soil only
  • FedRAMP High baseline

Other signals

  • customer-facing technical solutions
  • production data pipelines
  • AI workflows
  • streaming data ingestion
  • complex production environments
  • customer support advisor
  • technical lead
  • resolve critical issues
  • Databricks platform
  • productionizing systems