Databricks
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games
$182K–$250K
Mountain View, California +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Mar 12, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, California
Remote - Texas - Experience
- 6+ years in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering.
About the job
Build and productionize customer-facing data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform, leading architecture and delivery from design through deployment.
What you'll do
- Lead customer projects delivering production systems, reference architectures, applications, data ingestion, and ML/AI integrations.
- Advise and embed with customer teams to guide architecture, adoption, and successful delivery; coordinate with Databricks and customer stakeholders.
- Provide product and implementation feedback and contribute reusable accelerators, frameworks, and best practices.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms and analytics, or software engineering.
- Code in Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks.
- Working knowledge of at least two cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP), with expertise in at least one; deep Apache Spark distributed computing experience and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
- Experience delivering technical projects and production data architectures or applications combining pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces.
Nice to have
- Databricks Certification
Pay
$182,000 — $250,208 USD (base salary); $182,000 — $250,208 USD (base salary); $182,000 — $250,208 USD (base salary); $182,000 — $250,208 USD (base salary)
Tools
Databricks, Python, Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS, Azure, GCP, Apache Spark
AI focus
Integrate ML/AI models and AI APIs into production data architectures and customer applications; guide customers’ data and AI projects.
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