Forward Deployed Engineer (Data)

- If you do four of these five things well, we encourage you to apply. We care more about evidence of ownership, learning, and shipped outcomes than a perfect keyword match - 5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, analytics engineering, or another role building production data systems - Ability to work directly with customers, turn ambiguous operational problems into clear technical plans, and communicate tradeoffs to both engineers and business leaders - Sound judgment around distributed-system and data-quality failure modes, including idempotency, ordering, schema evolution, reconciliation, observability, and access control - Experience building and operating data pipelines across APIs, transactional databases, event streams, object storage, and cloud data platforms - Strong programming ability in Python and fluency with SQL, data modeling, and software-engineering practices such as testing, version control, and code review - Experience with manufacturing, supply-chain, ERP, PLM, MES, quality, or industrial data - Experience designing metrics layers, analytical data products, or operational reporting used by frontline teams - Experience with AWS and modern data technologies such as dbt, Airflow or Dagster, Kafka or similar event systems, and cloud warehouses or lakehouses - Familiarity with enterprise security, regulated environments, air-gapped networks, or customer-managed infrastructure - Experience in a customer-facing technical role such as…