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Sr. Solutions Architect - Strategic AI Native

Databricks

San Francisco, USremote country$219k-$301k/yrPosted Apr 24, 2026

At a glance

Highlights

  • Remote opportunities
  • Technical leadership with AI native customers
  • Collaboration with open-source projects like Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow

Heads up

  • Travel required

Why this role might suit you

The position provides exposure to large scale data platforms, collaboration with top engineering teams, and the opportunity to influence Databricks' open source ecosystem, accompanied by a competitive salary range and comprehensive benefits.

Skills

pythonsqldistributed-data-systemsbig-data-architecturesawsazuregcpsparkhadoopkafkapandasscikit-learnpytorchtensorflowdeltalakemlflow

About the role

While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other locations will be considered. #LI-REMOTE

As a Solutions Architect on the Digital Natives team, you will shape the future of the big data landscape by working with the most sophisticated data engineering and data science teams in the world.

Reporting to the Field Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with customer stakeholders, product teams, and the broader customer-facing team to develop architectures and solutions using our platform and APIs. You will guide one of our largest AI native customers through the competitive landscape, best practices, and implementation; and develop technical champions along the way.

The impact you will have:

You will partner with the sales team and provide technical leadership to help customers understand how Databricks can help solve their business problems.

Consult on Big Data architectures, implement proof of concepts for strategic projects, spanning data engineering, data science and machine learning, and SQL analysis workflows. As well as validating integrations with cloud services, home grown tools, and other 3rd party applications

Collaborate with your fellow Solutions Architects, using your skills to support each other and our users

Become an expert in, promote, and recruit contributors for Databricks inspired open-source projects (Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow) across the developer community.

What we look for:

7+ years in a data engineering, data science, technical architecture, or similar pre-sales/consulting role

Experience building distributed data systems

Comfortable programming in, and debugging, Python and SQL

Have built solutions with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

Expertise in one of the following:

Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)

Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, pytorch, Tensorflow)

Available to travel to customers in your region

[Desired] Degree in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research)

Nice to have: Databricks Certification

NOTE: If your experience isn’t a perfect match for the job description, but you feel like you’re a good fit for the role, apply. We want to work with smart, passionate, people who are good at their job, and, a lot of times, those people have non-linear career paths.

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

Local Pay Range

$219,100—$301,300 USD

About Databricks

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. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Benefits

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.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Compliance

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Compensation

This Solutions Architect role pays $219k-$301k/yr. Within typical range for solutions architect roles in United States.

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