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Sr. Solutions Engineer - Public Sector (Defense Industrial Base)

Databricks· Engineering
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Hybrid (Maryland; McLean, Virginia; Washington, D.C.)$219.1k - $301.3kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Solutions Engineer focusing on the Public Sector (Defense Industrial Base) at Databricks, partnering with sales, pre-sales, and post-sales teams to design, illustrate, and implement Databricks-based architectures for government customers; involves customer-facing work, architectural leadership, open-source advocacy, and travel.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the sales team to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems
  • Provide technical leadership for customers to evaluate and adopt Databricks
  • Consult on big data architecture, implement proof of concepts for strategic customer projects, data science and machine learning projects, and validate integrations with cloud services and other 3rd party applications
  • Build and present references architectures, how-tos, and demo applications for customers
  • Become an expert in, and promote Databricks inspired open-source projects (Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Koalas) across developer communities through meetups, conferences, and webinars
  • Travel to customers in your region

Qualifications

  • U.S. citizenship is required due to contractual requirements supporting U.S. Public Sector customers
  • 5+ years in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role
  • Experience designing and architecting distributed data systems
  • Comfortable programming in and debugging in Python and SQL
  • Experience supporting Public Sector clients
  • Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Expertise in at least one of the following: Data Engineering technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka); Data Warehousing (e.g., SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS); Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (e.g., pandas, scikit-learn, HPO)
  • [Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)

Skills

Required:U.S. citizenshipDistributed data system designPythonSQL

Benefits

  • Benefits information available via regional link in the job description (not explicitly listed in text)
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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