diff --git a/docs/reference/batch-materialization/spark.md b/docs/reference/batch-materialization/spark.md
index ce58c0ad0fd..27a1388c48e 100644
--- a/docs/reference/batch-materialization/spark.md
+++ b/docs/reference/batch-materialization/spark.md
@@ -19,3 +19,37 @@ batch_engine:
   partitions: [optional num partitions to use to write to online store]
 ```
 {% endcode %}
+
+## Example in Python
+
+{% code title="feature_store.py" %}
+```python
+from feast import FeatureStore, RepoConfig
+from feast.repo_config import RegistryConfig
+from feast.infra.online_stores.dynamodb import DynamoDBOnlineStoreConfig
+from feast.infra.offline_stores.contrib.spark_offline_store.spark import SparkOfflineStoreConfig
+
+repo_config = RepoConfig(
+    registry="s3://[YOUR_BUCKET]/feast-registry.db",
+    project="feast_repo",
+    provider="aws",
+    offline_store=SparkOfflineStoreConfig(
+      spark_conf={
+        "spark.ui.enabled": "false",
+        "spark.eventLog.enabled": "false",
+        "spark.sql.catalogImplementation": "hive",
+        "spark.sql.parser.quotedRegexColumnNames": "true",
+        "spark.sql.session.timeZone": "UTC"
+      }
+    ),
+    batch_engine={
+      "type": "spark.engine",
+      "partitions": 10
+    },
+    online_store=DynamoDBOnlineStoreConfig(region="us-west-1"),
+    entity_key_serialization_version=2
+)
+
+store = FeatureStore(config=repo_config)
+```
+{% endcode %}
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diff --git a/sdk/python/feast/infra/materialization/contrib/spark/spark_materialization_engine.py b/sdk/python/feast/infra/materialization/contrib/spark/spark_materialization_engine.py
index 66eb97bca78..00f2c950a28 100644
--- a/sdk/python/feast/infra/materialization/contrib/spark/spark_materialization_engine.py
+++ b/sdk/python/feast/infra/materialization/contrib/spark/spark_materialization_engine.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import tempfile
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from datetime import datetime
 from typing import Callable, List, Literal, Optional, Sequence, Union
@@ -196,7 +195,7 @@ class _SparkSerializedArtifacts:
     """Class to assist with serializing unpicklable artifacts to the spark workers"""
 
     feature_view_proto: str
-    repo_config_file: str
+    repo_config_byte: str
 
     @classmethod
     def serialize(cls, feature_view, repo_config):
@@ -205,12 +204,10 @@ def serialize(cls, feature_view, repo_config):
         feature_view_proto = feature_view.to_proto().SerializeToString()
 
         # serialize repo_config to disk. Will be used to instantiate the online store
-        repo_config_file = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False).name
-        with open(repo_config_file, "wb") as f:
-            dill.dump(repo_config, f)
+        repo_config_byte = dill.dumps(repo_config)
 
         return _SparkSerializedArtifacts(
-            feature_view_proto=feature_view_proto, repo_config_file=repo_config_file
+            feature_view_proto=feature_view_proto, repo_config_byte=repo_config_byte
         )
 
     def unserialize(self):
@@ -220,8 +217,7 @@ def unserialize(self):
         feature_view = FeatureView.from_proto(proto)
 
         # load
-        with open(self.repo_config_file, "rb") as f:
-            repo_config = dill.load(f)
+        repo_config = dill.loads(self.repo_config_byte)
 
         provider = PassthroughProvider(repo_config)
         online_store = provider.online_store