Senior Designated Support Engineer, Spark

We follow a hybrid model, with 3 days/week in the office.

Summary
Databricks is seeking an experienced Premier Support Engineer with a strong technical foundation and a passion for customer engagement. This self‑motivated professional will demonstrate high commitment to both customers and internal teams, with excellent communication, project management, and problem‑solving skills. In this role, the Designated Support Engineer will build and maintain close relationships with strategic customers, manage and prioritize critical issues, and ensure a high‑touch, proactive support experience.

The impact you will have

Manage large strategic accounts to provide high‑touch support experience

Project manage all open support cases to expedite support ticket closure

Facilitate customer correspondence with Engineering, Product Team, SMEs, and Accounts Teams to advance tickets toward resolution

Directly engage on business‑impacting situations and ensure recovery of functionality for the customer.

Successfully engage with Senior Leadership, Technical and Functional staff to remove roadblocks, address delays and mitigate issues

Effectively use sound business judgment, risk avoidance and SME resources to coordinate team efforts to solve problems

Carry out regular reviews of customer cases to identify trends

Champion and advocate for customers and chair round tables to ensure close communication and relationship building with key stakeholders

Drive customer self‑sufficiency by ensuring customers understand how to engage with the Databricks Support organization and tools

What we look for

5+ years of customer‑facing experience as a Support Engineer, Technical Account Manager, DSE or in related areas

Minimum 3 years’ experience designing and developing, testing, and sustaining Python/Java/Scala‑based applications required

Highly effective with project managing multiple tasks and work streams, driving them to conclusion

Demonstrated analytical and problem‑solving skills, particularly those that apply to a “Distributed Big Data Computing” environment.

Excellent executive presence. You are an excellent communicator (written and verbal skills), with demonstrable customer communication and coordination efforts, and the ability to take complex technical ideas and translate them to non‑technical stakeholders

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