The San Francisco, California-headquartered firm, Databricks, announced the opening of its operations in the America Trade Zone in Heredia Province.

The company is high technology working with platforms on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud to support every data and analytics use case, from data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) to streaming analytics, data engineering, and AI/ML workloads, in a single, unified location.

“Databricks has pioneered and is defining the data lakehouse category. Costa Rica is an ideal location for Databricks, offering a strong pool of qualified tech talent, a welcoming, business-friendly environment, and a convenient location and timezone to support our customers and partners," Rory Patterson, Chief of Staff to the CEO and VP of Corporate Operations at Databricks said. "LAs a result, we plan on investing and expanding our operations here and look forward to welcoming new Bricksters to our team.”

The company is hiring for its departments of Finance, HR, IT, Technical Support, Marketing and Operations among many others. 

Those interested should visit the firm's Careers page.

The company will be hosting a Job Fair event for local talent on Saturday, February 18th, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM at its facilities in Heredia. More information on the Job Fair can be reached on Beamery online form.  

 

Databricks is one of many U.S. firms investing in Costa Rica. Recently the Chicago, Illinois headquartered TransUnion opened a new Global Capability Center in Heredia Province.

International companies that have branched in Costa Rica generated 22,000 jobs last year, according to the Ministry of Foreign Commerce (COMEX).

Even though new businesses are creating jobs, the unemployment rate has increased to 11.7%, according to the National Employment Survey. The data recorded from October to December 2022, shows that there are more than 287,000 people without registered jobs. Of these, 159,000 are women, making up 55% of unemployed people in the country.

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