Databricks: Associate Forward Deployed Engineer — Mountain View, California

About Databricks

Databricks develops a platform for data, analytics and AI. Its employer material describes bringing related capabilities together so organisations can build and scale applications, analytics and agents using their information. The advertised platform portfolio includes data-engineering, lakehouse, governance and AI-related products. Its business connects the infrastructure used to manage data with the tools used to derive insights or create applications, rather than treating those activities as entirely separate technology projects.

The position and its setting

Databricks lists Associate Forward Deployed Engineer in Mountain View, California, under reference 8910846002. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Professional Services Operations
• Employer listing date: 23 October 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Production Solution Delivery: Deliver production-grade systems and reference architectures, contributing reusable frameworks, tools, and best practices along the way
• Transformational Impact: Support strategic customers through transformational data & AI projects, from prototype through production deployment
• Own the Architecture: 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
• Collaboration: closely with senior FDEs, Databricks engineering, and customer support to unblock customers and feed learnings back into the product
• Management: 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

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 2+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or data platforms & analytics
• Full-stack software engineering skills proficiency in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript, and comfort working across back-end services, APIs, and modern front-end frameworks
• Computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, testing, and version control
• Experience: at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP), or a desire to develop cloud expertise quickly
• Familiarity: CI/CD, and an interest in production data architectures and MLOps, ML/AI models and AI APIs
• Communication skills and a genuine interest in customer-facing engineering work
• Build skills in technical areas, and demonstrate curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to explore new technologies which support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions to complete customer projects
• We'll help you build platform depth on the job

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Experience: Apache Spark or distributed data processing is a plus
• Databricks Certification is a plus, and can be obtained after joining

Location, schedule and contract conditions

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• As an Associate Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Databricks, you'll be in a hands-on, customer-facing role for builders who thrive at the intersection of technology and business impact
• You'll work directly with enterprise customers to build and productionize data & AI solutions on the Databricks platform
• This early-career role is ideal for a software engineer looking to grow into a technical leader
• Embed with customer teams, ship production-grade systems, and learn the Databricks platform deeply alongside senior FDEs and our engineering organization
• More About Databricks
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• Advertised location: Mountain View, California

Benefits mentioned by the employer

• At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees
• For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Databricks

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Open the official Databricks posting below and match the title and reference 8910846002.

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Practical preparation: Python

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Relevant skills

• Python
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Spark
• CI/CD
• AWS
• GCP
• Azure
• APIs
• AI/ML
• Google Cloud
• Excel