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Sr. Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Databricks
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Singaporefull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with strategic customers to design and deliver custom fullstack applications and solutions on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, owning architecture, design decisions, and end-to-end delivery across data engineering, AI, and application development.

Responsibilities

  • Own the Architecture: Lead architecture and design decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with both customer needs and Databricks best practices.
  • Application Engineering: Design and develop applications spanning backend, frontend, and integrations, bringing data and AI to life for enterprise users leveraging the Databricks platform.
  • Solution Delivery: Deliver production-grade systems from data ingestion and transformation through ML/AI model integration to user-facing applications and enablement.
  • Customer Immersion: Embed with customer teams, engaging with stakeholders from technical ICs to executives to deeply understand challenges and deliver impact.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Sales, Product, and Field Engineering to ensure a seamless customer journey from pre-sales through post-deployment.
  • Reusable Assets & Scale: Contribute accelerators, frameworks, and best practices that scale impact across accounts and influence the Databricks product roadmap.

Qualifications

  • Engineering Depth: Strong background in software engineering with experience across backend, frontend, and systems integration. Proficiency in Python, SQL, Java/Scala, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks.
  • Application Delivery: Demonstrated ability to design, build, and deploy production applications that combine data pipelines, ML/AI models, and user-facing interfaces.
  • AI/ML Experience: Familiarity working with AI APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini into applications, and leveraging AI code generation tools to accelerate productivity.
  • Customer Impact: Proven track record of delivering technical solutions in enterprise environments that drive measurable outcomes.
  • Collaboration & Communication: Ability to engage across a broad stakeholder range, from engineers to C-level executives, translating complex concepts into actionable solutions.
  • Learning Mindset: Curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to explore new technologies, domains, and customer challenges.

Benefits

  • Benefits details available by region (link provided in job description).
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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