Technical Instructor

Databricks, Inc.
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Job Description

As a Spark Technical Instructor at Databricks, you will teach data scientists, data engineers, and analysts about Spark and Databricks using a teaching platform and courseware built by the team behind Spark itself. You will teach at customer sites, at conferences, virtually, and at Databricks headquarters. This role requires both engineering and classroom management skills.

Responsibilities:

  • Deliver instructor-led classroom training to end-user customers (developers, data scientists, analysts, architects) and partners on a regular schedule in US and abroad.
  • Own the engagements you deliver. We have logistics support, but ultimately it is up to you to ensure that you have what you need to deliver high value events and reach out when you need help.
  • Be an ambassador for Databricks.
  • Bring feedback and your learnings from delivering in the field to the core curriculum team so we can integrate that back into what we are teaching.

Required Skill/Experience:

  • Experience teaching multi-day, in-person technical classes
  • Experience using videoconferencing products (Zoom, GoToTraining, Webex)
  • Ability to quickly learn, grasp, and explain advanced concepts
  • Strong speaking skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Ability to travel 50% of the time (once pandemic travel restrictions are lifted)
  • Solid grasp of programming principles (object oriented and functional). At least medium level proficiency in one of: Java, Scala, Python, R
  • Proficiency in SQL
  • Experience working as or with one or more of the following personas:
    • Data Architects
    • Data Engineers
    • Data Scientists
    • Data Analysts

Additional preferred qualifications are:

  • Hands-on proficiency in Apache Spark, Redshift/Snowflake/Azure SQL DW, MapReduce
  • Production experience in machine learning, data warehousing, building data pipelines, microservices and container orchestration, CI/CD
  • Experience with cloud platforms and the ecosystem of big data tools

Company Info.

Databricks, Inc.

Databricks is an American enterprise software company founded by the creators of Apache Spark. Databricks develops a web-based platform for working with Spark, that provides automated cluster management and IPython-style notebooks. Databricks grew out of the AMPLab project at University of California, Berkeley that was involved in making Apache Spark, an open-source distributed computing framework built atop Scala.

  • Industry
    Data Science Company,Artificial intelligence,Computer software
  • No. of Employees
    4,000
  • Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
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