P-1448
About the Role
Databricks is seeking an experienced Sr. Designated Support Engineer/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 Sr. Designated Support Engineer/Premier Support Engineer will build and maintain close relationships with strategic customers, manage and prioritize critical issues, and ensure a high-touch, proactive support experience.
Summary
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 a high-touch support experience.
Deep-dive into complex Apache Spark and Data Engineering issues, analyzing Spark UI, thread dumps, and driver/executor logs to resolve critical performance bottlenecks.
Advise strategic customers on Data Engineering best practices, including optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, and leveraging the Databricks Lakehouse architecture (Delta Lake/Iceberg).
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 s
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£45,000 – £60,000 (Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, 2025)