Designated Support Engineer - Spark
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 3, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 2, 2026. Databricks scores B on the Alion truth index.
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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 roundtables 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
- Language Proficiency: professional working proficiency in both Mandarin and English (both written and verbal).
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide - including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 - rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.
Benefits
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