Forward Deployment Engineer- Greater NYC

The company is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to operate at the intersection of solution architecture, technical delivery, and customer partnership. This role combines elements of a solutions architect, technical account manager, and solution engineer, with a strong emphasis on execution.

As an FDE, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor and sounding board for customers, helping them design, implement, and scale real-time data solutions using the company. You will work closely with customers to understand their business objectives, translate them into technical strategies, and drive those solutions into production. This role requires a delivery mindset, strong technical depth, and the ability to lead both strategic conversations and hands-on execution.

Role and Responsibilities

• Partner directly with customers to understand their architecture, use cases, and business goals, and translate them into scalable technical solutions.

• Design and implement end-to-end solutions integrating the company into existing application and data ecosystems.

• Lead whiteboard sessions to shape ideas, define architecture, and convert concepts into technical specifications and execution plans.

• Act as a proactive thought partner, bringing ideas and guiding conversations rather than reacting to requirements.

• Own delivery of high-impact initiatives from concept through production, ensuring successful outcomes.

• Provide hands-on support, including troubleshooting, optimization, and applying pragmatic solutions or fixes when needed.

• Collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, and Engineering teams to align customer needs with product capabilities and roadmap.

• Help customers prioritize and operationalize their data initiatives, balancing ambition with practical delivery.

• Feed insights from customer engagements back into Product and Engineering to influence roadmap and improvements.

Your Experience

• 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, solution engineering, or technical consulting (pre-sales and/or post-sales).

• Strong foundation in databases, distributed systems, or software engineering.

• Proven experience delivering production-grade solutions in customer-facing environments.

• Experience integrating complex systems across data pipelines, applications, and infrastructure.

• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans and drive execution.

• Experience working with enterprise customers, particularly in financial services or high-tech environments, is highly preferred.

• Strong communication and organizational skills, with the ability to guide both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to balance technical innovation with pragmatic delivery and realistic scoping.

• Alignment with product capabilities and roadmap, ensuring solutions are both impactful and feasible.

• This is a customer-facing role, and we prefer candidates based in the NYC area or within a commutable distance.

The company delivers the cloud-native database with the speed and scale to power the world’s data-intensive applications. With a distributed SQL database that introduces simplicity to your data architecture by unifying transactions and analytics, the company empowers digital leaders to deliver exceptional, real-time data experiences to their customers. The company is venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Sunnyvale, Raleigh, Seattle, Boston, London, Lisbon, Bangalore, Dublin and Kyiv.

Consistent with our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we value individuals with the ability to work on diverse teams and with a diverse range of people.

To all recruitment agencies: the company does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to the company employees. The company is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.

The company values individuals for their unique skills and experiences, and we’re proud to offer roles in a variety of locations across the United States. Salary is based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location, and is just one part of our total compensation and benefits package. Certain roles are also eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases and annual bonuses.

The company’s base salary range for this role, if based in States: $120,000 - $200,000 USD per year

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