Sr. Developer Advocate, Lakehouse

Sr. Developer Advocate, Open Lakehouse

Location:

San Francisco, Bellevue, Amsterdam

Are you an active community leader and hands-on builder in the data engineering and AI ecosystem? This Senior Developer Advocate role is a high-impact position focused on the strategic adoption and technical discourse across the Open Lakehouse stack, including Apache Spark™,
Delta Lake
, MLflow
, Unity Catalog
, and Apache Iceberg™.

• Content Execution and Delivery:
  Define, develop, and maintain high-quality, actionable educational resources, including deep-dive tutorials, advanced technical blogs, and live-coding demonstrations that showcase core open source features and thought leadership.
• Evangelism:
  Create and deploy practical code samples and compelling reference demos that showcase best practices for ETL, data governance, and analytics, effectively integrating the OSS ecosystem with cutting-edge AI tools.
• Community Leadership and Advocacy:
  Actively lead and grow technical communities and meetups. Connect with developers where they are at, and become their primary internal advocate to engineering and product teams, aligning the product roadmap with developer needs.
• Open Source Contribution:
  Directly participate in open source communities by filing detailed bug reports, submitting small pull requests, and providing clear, actionable feedback on new features for projects like Delta Lake, MLflow, or Apache Iceberg™.
• Evangelism:
  Deliver engaging, high-value presentations at local user groups, regional, and industry events on complex topics such as data format interoperability, ETL best practices, and the application of AI Agentic Systems across the data development workflow.

• Experience and Tenure: 5+ years of total technical experience, including professional experience as a software developer, data engineer, or solutions architect, with a proven history of building and operating data workloads.
• Deep Technical Proficiency:
  Expert-level programming skills in Python, SQL, and Java.
• Lakehouse Ecosystem Mastery:
  Foundational understanding of the core Open Lakehouse technologies, including Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg™, Unity Catalog, and MLflow.
• Verifiable Open Source Track Record:
  Demonstrated ability to build and operate data workloads using core Open Lakehouse technologies, with hands-on experience in the open source contribution workflow (filing issues, small PRs).
• Communication and Empathy:
  Exceptional communication skills with a proven talent for translating complex technical concepts into clear, concise educational material for a broad developer audience. A public portfolio showing high-quality content creation (e.g., detailed tutorials, well-received conference talks, or active community contributions) is a significant advantage.

Zone 2 Pay Range
$133,000—$186,100 USD

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow.

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