- Company: Databricks
- Location: Berlin, Germany, Germany
- Salary: Pay not listed
Databricks at a glance
databricks.com- Founded 2013
- Employees 4000
SEC filings mentioning "databricks": 320 — search EDGAR
4,576 employees covered under a retirement plan (2024 filing) — via DOL Form 5500 / EFAST2
Registered as a global legal entity (LEI 984500FEDAC7FBD96273, US) — via GLEIF
Databricks is a San Francisco–based software company founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark at UC Berkeley. It sells a cloud data-analytics and AI platform that runs natively on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, including managed AI infrastructure and an open data marketplace on Delta Sharing. Public facts put the firm at roughly 4,000 employees. Background: Wikipedia.
46,080 Wikipedia views in June 2026 — a rough gauge of public visibility.
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE (Fullstack)
databricks
Berlin, Germany, Germany
Position Summary
You will work closely with customers to build and productionize solutions for their data and AI challenges using the Databricks platform. As a Fullstack engineer, you'll own architecture, lead design decisions, and implement end-to-end systems that span from data engineering to application development. You will collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and developer relations teams to shape long-term strategic priorities and initiatives. This role is hands-on and customer-facing, requiring exceptional technical expertise and a passion for delivering measurable outcomes.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Production Solution Delivery: Lead impactful customer technical projects by delivering production-grade systems, designing and building reference architectures, custom applications, and data ingestion and ML/AI model integration.
- Transformational Impact: Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects. This includes end-to-end design, build, and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications. Work with engagement managers to scope technical delivery work with input from the customer.
- Empower Customers: Integrate with client systems, train, and support other technical needs to help customers maximize their value from Databricks solutions.
Requirements
- Experience in full-stack development using modern programming languages and frameworks.
- A deep understanding of data engineering, AI/ML pipelines, and application development.
- Proven ability to lead design decisions and deliver production-grade systems.
- Strong customer-facing skills with a focus on delivering value through technical solutions.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating with product, engineering, and developer relations.
More About databricks
databricks is a leading provider of data and AI innovation. We empower customers to transform their businesses by delivering robust, scalable solutions that drive measurable outcomes. Our team is dedicated to fostering an environment where creativity meets technical excellence.
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- Databricks CEO Plans to Avoid IPO During Year of Huge Offerings - Bloomberg.com
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Working in Berlin, Germany, Deutschland
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Berlin, Germany is Germany’s capital and largest city, with about 3.7 million residents—the most populous city proper in the EU—and is also one of Germany’s federal states. This role is listed for Berlin, Germany (on-site; not remote).
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National unemployment rate in Germany: 3.7% — via World Bank
Wage growth in Germany (year over year): 3.4% — via Eurostat
GDP per capita in Germany: $60,496 — via World Bank
Consumer price inflation in Germany: 2.2% (annual) — via World Bank
Real GDP growth in Germany: 0.2% (annual) — via World Bank
Statutory minimum wage in Germany: €2,343/month — via Eurostat
Cost of living in Germany: 9.1% above the EU average — via Eurostat
Job vacancy rate in Germany: 2.8% — via Eurostat
Average hours worked per year in Germany: 1,332 — via OECD
Nearby green space: 10 parks within 1.5km — closest is Lustgarten. via OpenStreetMap
Nearest public transit: Staatsoper (bus stop, 55m). via OpenStreetMap
- Elevation 36m (118 ft)
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Prioritize strong fullstack delivery (APIs, web UI, cloud services), data-platform literacy (Spark/Lakehouse concepts), and customer-facing engineering: scoping, demos, and production hardening. No cert family or costed resources were supplied for this listing.
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Strong fit if you like shipping fullstack systems in ambiguous customer environments and care about data/AI platforms. Berlin, Germany-based, non-remote listing favors candidates who can work from that market and represent Databricks on-site with enterprise accounts.
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- Role Senior Forward Deployed Engineer – FDE (Fullstack)
- Employer Databricks
- Location Berlin, Germany, Germany
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) Pay not listed
- Posted July 29, 2026
- Apply by August 28, 2026
- Country Germany
- Overview Full job description on this page (304 words)
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- Hacker News — Ask HN: Has anyone here programmed in Kotlin? What do you think about it?
- Hacker News — MapD: Massive Throughput Database Queries with LLVM on GPUs
- Hacker News — Go vs. Rust: Productivity vs. Performance
- Hacker News — IBM Invests to Help Apache Spark
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