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Are you a charismatic data engineering Developer Advocate at heart, someone who excels in the spotlight, loves presenting and hosting events, and possesses a deep knowledge of the Databricks Intelligence Platform? As a Databricks Developer Advocate, you’ll be a crucial link between our engineering teams and the broad community of data professionals building their careers on Databricks technologies. This role will leverage your strong expertise in Databricks to educate, inspire, and support our growing user base. Your responsibilities will encompass a wide range of knowledge-sharing activities. You’ll deliver engaging talks, host insightful panels and meetups, create informative blogs and video content, develop comprehensive courseware, provide expert answers in community forums, and conduct one-on-one sessions with influential data engineers and scientists. These efforts will help disseminate best practices and foster a thriving Databricks community. Community engagement will be at the heart of your role. You’ll work closely with the Databricks community and the product and engineering teams, ensuring that user needs and product development align seamlessly. Reporting directly to the Head of Developer Relations, you’ll collaborate with fellow developer advocates and program managers to create and execute a cohesive and impactful developer relations strategy. The ideal candidate for this position will embody the values of our Developer Relations team: a deep passion for data and AI, genuine empathy and technical understanding of developers’ needs, and a strong commitment to effectively explaining our products. You’ll use your diverse Databricks skill set to educate the community about Databricks technologies and continuously gather and utilize community feedback to improve the developer experience. More about the DevRel team: At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world’s most challenging problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world’s best data and AI infrastructure platform so our customers can use deep data insights to improve their business. Our ability to execute this mission depends on building trust and recognition with an ever-growing community of data engineers, analysts, scientists, machine learning, and AI practitioners. The Developer Relations (DevRel) team at Databricks is dedicated to building and fostering relationships with communities of data practitioners. Our primary goal is to drive awareness and adoption of the Databricks Intelligence Platform for data and AI. The impact you will have: Create compelling content to inspire data practitioners, helping them discover new features and run projects at scale. Drive awareness and adoption of Databricks technologies through speaking engagements at industry events. Create high-quality educational content like videos, sample notebooks, datasets, tutorials, courseware, and blog posts. Expand and nurture the Databricks user community by organizing and growing meetups and user groups and providing support to data scientists, engineers, and analysts in online communities. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to share community learnings and influence product direction. Create and manage developer-focused programs to foster engagement and loyalty, creating a positive developer experience for data practitioners. Gather and analyze feedback from the community to drive continuous improvement of Databricks products and services. What we look for: 5+ years experience as DevRel and as a software developer, solutions architect, or related profession Subject matter knowledge of solving data engineering problems at all scales. Active participation and recognized leadership in Databricks community forums, chats, and meetups Comprehensive understanding of the Databricks products and ecosystem Proven track record in nurturing developer communities, organizing user groups, and facilitating global meetups Exceptional communication skills, with a talent for articulating complex concepts through writing, teaching, videos, and public speaking Deep empathy for developer needs, with the ability to craft engaging experiences across tutorials, notebooks, and community platforms Adept at collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to align community initiatives with product objectives Demonstrated ability to catalyze growth in both digital and in-person developer communities Pay Range Transparency Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks utilizes the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here . Zone 1 Pay Range $115,400 — $204,200 USD About Databricks Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter , LinkedIn and Facebook . Benefits At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit . Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. Compliance If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone. #J-18808-Ljbffr Databricks

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