Associate Forward Deployed Engineer
Databricks
About the Role
As an Associate Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Databricks, you will be in a hands-on, customer-facing role. This early-career position is ideal for a strong software engineer looking to grow into a technical leader. You will embed with customer teams, ship production-grade systems, and learn the Databricks platform deeply alongside senior FDEs and our engineering organization. This role is based in our New York (Midtown location) office.
The Impact You Will Have
- Deliver production-grade systems and reference architectures, contributing reusable frameworks, tools, and best practices.
- Support strategic customers through transformational data & AI projects, from prototype through production deployment.
- Contribute to architecture and design decisions for secure, scalable, full-stack solutions on the Databricks platform.
- Embed with customer teams to understand their technical and business challenges and help deliver measurable impact.
- Collaborate closely with senior FDEs, Databricks engineering, and customer support to unblock customers and feed learnings back into the product.
- Manage technical scope and timelines for your workstreams, growing toward end-to-end delivery ownership.
- Work with the Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect and Customer team to ensure the technical components of the engagement are delivered to meet customer's needs.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Python and JavaScript/TypeScript proficiency.
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP), or a strong desire to develop cloud expertise quickly.
- Familiarity with CI/CD.
- Interest in production data architectures and MLOps, ML/AI models and AI APIs.
- Apache Spark or distributed data processing is a plus.
Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or data platforms & analytics.
- Strong full-stack software engineering skills, including comfort working across back-end services, APIs, and modern front-end frameworks.
- Solid computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, testing, and version control.
- Excellent communication skills and a genuine interest in customer-facing engineering work.
- Ability to build skills in technical areas, demonstrate curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to explore new technologies that support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions.
- Databricks Certification is a plus, and can be obtained after joining.
Hub Cities
- NYC
- Mountain View
Up to 20% travel to customer sites + Hybrid office expectation.