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Designated Support Engineer

Databricks
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/14/2025 CLOSED ON 4/9/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Designated Support Engineer position at Databricks?

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Databricks is looking for an experienced Designated Support Engineer with a passion for customer relations, project and account management. This role requires a self-motivated professional with a strong technical background that consistently brings a high level of commitment to customers and Databricks teammates. The ideal candidate brings strong communication and project management skills as well as a strong technical background and the ability to strategically and tactically navigate the challenges with large, strategic customers.

The Designated Support Engineer will develop and maintain close relationships with a strategic group of customers. The ideal candidate will coordinate and prioritize business critical cases / events and will be responsible for ensuring a high touch support experience.

The impact you will have :

  • Work with Databricks' largest strategic accounts to provide a high touch support experience.
  • Manage one or multiple accounts simultaneously.
  • Project manage all open support cases on a daily basis, sometimes multiple times a day to ensure forward progress.
  • Facilitate correspondence with Engineering, Product Team, SMEs, Accounts Teams and inspire active engagement to ensure forward progress on support cases.
  • Directly engage on business impacting situations and ensure recovery of functionality for the customer.
  • Review upcoming customer events and planned production activities to identify potential problems, then plan and implement solutions.
  • Successfully engage with Senior Leadership, Technical and Functional staff to remove roadblocks, address delays and mitigate issues.
  • Own and drive escalated issues blocking production success.
  • Effectively use sound business judgment, risk avoidance and subject matter expert resources to coordinate team efforts to solve problems.
  • Carry out regular review of customer cases to identify trends.
  • Handle challenging situations in a fast paced environment.
  • Champion and advocate for customers and chair roundtables to ensure close communication and relationship building with key stakeholders.
  • Serve on and actively participate in customer steering committee meetings.
  • Drive customer self-sufficiency by ensuring customers understand how to engage with the Databricks Support organization and tools.
  • Pilot new programs and drive continuous improvement initiatives for production customers.
  • Participate in our 24x7 program.

What we look for :

  • 3 to 5 years of customer facing experience as Technical Account Manager, Designated Support Engineer or in related areas like implementation, Technical Support, or Solutions Architect.
  • Minimum 3 years’ experience designing and developing, testing, and sustaining Python / Java / Scala based applications required.
  • Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly those that apply to a “Distributed Big Data Computing” environment.
  • 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.
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