Sydney
22 Aug 2026
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Senior Designated Support Engineer

Databricks

Senior Designated Support Engineer

Databricks is seeking a Senior Designated Support Engineer to provide high-touch technical support for its largest customers in the Digital Native Business segment. The role requires deep expertise in Apache Spark, data engineering, and cloud technologies, along with strong customer-facing skills. You will troubleshoot complex issues, build solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Core AIOn-siteFull-timeSeniorApache SparkPython

Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, AU

Work Model

On-site

Experience Required

8 years

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)
Apache SparkPythonJavaScalaSQLDelta LakeApache IcebergMachine LearningDeep LearningGenerative AIAWSAzureGCPCI/CDSnowflakeAmazon RedshiftBigQuery
Soft Skills
CommunicationRelationship-buildingProblem-solvingCollaborationLeadershipProactive problem solvingBusiness judgment

Key Responsibilities

  • Perform advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis to resolve performance and reliability issues in Spark, SQL, Delta, Streaming, and Databricks runtime features.
  • Discover requirements for continuous monitoring to detect early performance issues, working with R&D and NOC teams to optimise DNB customer environments.
  • Build rapid POCs, test/deploy/monitor solutions built by Databricks Engineering to address customer challenges and showcase advanced Spark/ML/AI runtime capabilities.
  • Develop comprehensive playbooks and maintain a knowledge base of common issues and solutions for Spark, ML, and AI workflows.
  • Train customer engineering and business teams on best practices in performance tuning, debugging, and effectively leveraging Databricks Features.
  • Pilot new best practices processes/programs, champion process improvements, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance the customer experience.
  • Advocate for customers in business review meetings and maintain close relationships as a trusted advisor and primary technical point of contact.
  • Collaborate onsite with Field Engineering, Sales, and Product teams during customer engagements and technical presentations to provide rapid solutions to production-impacting issues.
Senior Designated Support EngineerCustomer ServiceEngineeringApache SparkData EngineeringCloudAIMachine LearningDatabricksFull-time