Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Public Sector

Databricks is the Data and AI company, serving more than 20,000 organizations worldwide. As a Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) in the Public Sector, you will work with customers to build and productionize solutions to their data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform, owning the architecture, leading design decisions, and implementing end-to-end systems spanning data engineering, AI, and application development. FDEs are billable and customer-facing. Due to federal contract requirements, U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. government secret clearance are required; candidates with an active Secret or higher clearance are strongly encouraged to apply.

• Lead impactful customer technical projects, delivering production-grade systems, reference architectures, custom applications, data ingestion, and ML/AI model integration.
• Guide strategic customers on transformational big data projects, including end-to-end design, build, and deployment.
• Own architecture and design decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with customer needs and Databricks best practices.
• Embed with customer teams, engaging stakeholders from technical ICs to executives.
• Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts.

• 6+ years in data engineering, data platforms & analytics, or software engineering.
• Comfortable writing code in Python, Scala, or JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frameworks.
• Working knowledge of two or more cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one.
• Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark and knowledge of Spark runtime internals.
• Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments; working knowledge of MLOps, ML/AI models, and AI APIs.
• Design and deployment of performant production end-to-end data architectures and applications.
• Experience with technical project delivery and enterprise clients; travel to customers 20% of the time.

The pay range is $182,000—$250,208 USD (all zones). The total compensation package may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above.

Apply through the Databricks careers page for this position.