Senior Solutions Engineer, Digital Native Strategic Accounts

Showcify; California (MO, WA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is hiring a Sr. Solutions Engineer who will independently lead technical engagements for customers, owning discovery, solution design, and platform demonstrations.

You are a builder who can code, architect, and present—driving Databricks adoption with customer-facing skills. You will cultivate frontline customer relationships and work with the Account Executive to expand platform usage in Digital Native customers, building reusable assets and guiding technical strategy across data

Qualifications

• 4+ years in data engineering, solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, or a hands-on consulting role
• Proficient in Python and SQL with ability to debug, optimize, and write production-quality code—live coding is a required interview stage
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing data solutions on at least one public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Working knowledge of distributed data systems: Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, or equivalent (Hadoop, Kafka, Flink)
• Experience leading technical customer conversations - discovery, whiteboarding, architecture reviews
• Familiarity with data engineering (ETL/ELT, medallion architecture, streaming), data science/ML (model training, MLOps), or SQL analytics
• Strong presentation and demo skills — you will build and present a live solution during the interview
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline (or equivalent experience)

Responsibilities

• Independently lead technical discovery and solution design for customer workloads spanning data engineering, analytics, and machine learning
• Build and deliver compelling proofs-of-concept and live demos on the Databricks Platform that drive technical wins
• Own frontline technical relationships with customer engineers, data teams, and technical leads
• Develop account-level technical strategies in partnership with your Account Executive to grow platform consumption
• Navigate competitive landscapes by articulating Databricks differentiation through hands-on demonstrations
• Contribute reusable technical assets (notebooks, solution accelerators, reference architectures) to the broader SA community

Skills

Python

SQL

Live coding

Public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Distributed data systems (Spark/Delta)

Solution architecture / pre-sales

Presentation & demos

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering or quantitative discipline

Tools

Databricks Platform

Unity Catalog

MLflow

Lakeflow

Spark

Job description

Databricks is hiring a Sr. Solutions Engineer who will independently lead technical engagements for customers, owning discovery, solution design, and platform demonstrations.

You are a builder who can code, architect, and present—driving Databricks adoption with customer-facing skills. You will cultivate frontline customer relationships and work with the Account Executive to expand platform usage in Digital Native customers, building reusable assets and guiding technical strategy across data