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Sr. Big Data Engineer

Databricks

INremote countryPosted Mar 31, 2026

At a glance

Highlights

  • Remote work within India
  • Customer‑facing consulting on big data projects
  • Opportunity to work with Databricks platform

Heads up

  • Travel required for onsite engagements within India

Why this role might suit you

A senior big data engineer with strong Spark, Kafka and cloud experience can lead complex customer engagements, design end‑to‑end data solutions, and deepen expertise in the Databricks ecosystem while working remotely from India.

Skills

apache-sparkkafkapythonscalagcpawsazuredatabricksbig-datadata-lakecloud-native

About the role

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As a Sr. Big Data Engineer in our Professional Services team, you will work with clients on short to medium-term customer engagements on their big data challenges using the Databricks Platform. You will provide data engineering, data science, and cloud technology projects that require integrating with client systems, training, and other technical tasks to help customers get the most value out of their data. You will report to the Manager, Professional Services.

The impact you will have:

You will work on a variety of impactful customer technical Big Data projects, which may include building reference architectures, how-to's and production-grade MVPs

Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects, 3rd party migrations, including end-to-end design, build and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications

Consult on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement strategic customer projects that lead to a customer's successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks.

Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and to guide rapid resolution for engagement-specific product and support issues.

What we look for:

8+ years of experience with Big Data Technologies such as Apache Spark™, Kafka, Cloud Native and Data Lakes in a customer-facing post-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role

6+ years of experience working on Big Data Architectures independently

Strong experience working in the Databricks ecosystem

Comfortable writing code in either Python or Scala.

Experience working across Cloud Platforms (GCP / AWS / Azure)

Documentation and white-boarding skills.

Build skills in technical areas which support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions to complete customer projects.

Willingness to travel for onsite customer engagements within India.

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

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