Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - National Security

This role sits within Databricks' federal government-facing delivery team, helping agency customers build and productionize data and AI solutions on the Databricks platform. The engineer owns architecture and design decisions, leads end-to-end delivery spanning data engineering, ML/AI, and application development, and embeds with customer teams to guide adoption. The role requires travel to customer sites roughly 20-25% of the time and requires U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a secret clearance.

• 6+ years in data engineering, data platforms, or software engineering; proficiency in Python, Scala, and JavaScript/TypeScript; working knowledge of at least two major cloud platforms with expertise in one; strong experience with Apache Spark and distributed computing; familiarity with CI/CD and MLOps; experience delivering production data/ML architectures for enterprise clients; U.S. citizenship and secret clearance eligibility required.