Forward Deployment Engineer

As a Forward Deployment Engineer, you will lead customer engagements from initial discovery through implementation, ensuring technical solutions deliver measurable business value.

• Partner with customers to understand their existing architectures, business objectives, technical requirements, and use cases, translating them into scalable solutions.
• Design and implement end-to-end solutions that integrate a distributed SQL database into existing application, data, and infrastructure ecosystems.
• Lead technical workshops and whiteboard sessions to explore ideas, define system architectures, and translate concepts into actionable technical specifications and delivery plans.
• Act as a proactive technical thought partner, identifying opportunities, proposing solutions, and guiding customers beyond their initial requirements.
• Take ownership of high-impact initiatives from concept through production, driving implementation and ensuring successful delivery.
• Provide hands-on technical support, including troubleshooting, performance optimization, and pragmatic fixes to address implementation challenges.
• Collaborate with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, and Engineering teams to connect customer requirements with product capabilities and roadmap priorities.
• Help customers prioritize and operationalize data initiatives by balancing technical ambition, business impact, realistic scope, and execution constraints.
• Share feedback and insights from customer engagements with Product and Engineering teams to inform product improvements and future development.

• 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, solution engineering, or technical consulting, across pre-sales and/or post-sales environments.
• Strong foundational knowledge of databases, distributed systems, or software engineering.
• Demonstrated experience delivering production-grade technical solutions in customer-facing environments.
• Experience integrating complex systems across data pipelines, applications, and infrastructure.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business and technical requirements into clear architectural plans and executable delivery strategies.
• Experience working with enterprise customers, preferably in financial services or high-tech industries.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, with the ability to engage and influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A pragmatic, delivery-oriented mindset, with the ability to balance technical innovation against implementation complexity, business priorities, and realistic timelines.
• Ability to align proposed solutions with existing product capabilities and roadmap priorities to ensure feasibility and impact.
• Willingness and ability to work directly with customers in a customer-facing engineering capacity.
• Candidates based in the New York City metropolitan area or within a commutable distance are preferred.

• Annual base salary ranging from $120,000 to $200,000 USD , depending on skills, experience, geographic location, and other permissible, non-discriminatory factors.
• Eligibility for additional compensation opportunities, including merit increases and annual bonuses, where applicable.
• Opportunity to work on complex, data-intensive applications and help enterprise customers implement real-time data solutions.
• Cross-functional collaboration with teams across Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, and Engineering.
• An opportunity to influence product improvements and roadmap priorities through direct customer feedback.
• A diverse and inclusive working environment that values individual skills, experiences, and collaboration across teams.