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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) 

Location: Hyderabad

Work Experience: 6+ Years

Requirements:

  • Experience: 5+ years of software development experience, either in a core product engineering role or a customer-facing sales/solutions engineering role.
  • Hands-on big data analytics/cloud experience.
  • Understanding of how data is secured in transit and at rest, authentication & authorization standards, and RBAC. 
  • Expert SQL and data modeling expertise.  
  • AI/ML, MCP experience a plus.  
  • Systems design & architecture: Proven ability to design and implement end-to-end data solutions in production environments.
  • Proficient in one or more of Python, Node.js, Java, and C/C++.
  • Production experience debugging distributed systems, tuning for latency, logging & monitoring, performance telemetry experience a plus.
  • Prioritize user value, MVP iteration, and long-term scale .
  • Expert-level SQL with hands-on experience building/maintaining data pipelines (ETL/ELT, tools like Airflow, dbt).
  • Extensive design and implementation experience with relational databases and general familiarity with other database paradigms, including NoSQL, graph or time series databases.  
  • Working knowledge of popular data solutions for batch and real-time processing , e.g., Spark, Kafka, Trino, Flink, Apache ecosystem.  
  • Exposure to data lakehouse paradigms with working knowledge of one or more: Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery (Iceberg a plus).
  • Depth of systems architecture expertise, hands-on in at least one of Azure, AWS, or GCP. 
  • May have worked as a software engineer on enterprise products or as a backend engineer.
  • Working knowledge of leading LLMs a big plus.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).

Job Description:

  • Build data solutions with data originating from customers’ core systems of record, transformed through sophisticated data pipelines and landing in a format ready to be consumed by human and AI agents. 
  • Help ground data in a business context to drive AI agent accuracy and quality.  
  • Operate in the field, working side-by-side with customers to adapt, deploy, and iterate in live environments.
  • Codify reusable assets—libraries, SDKs, snippets, technical accelerators—to help customers go from zero to value rapidly.
  • Deliver production-ready solutions in agile end-to-end sprints – with frequent customer interaction, both async and live over Zoom/Teams. 
  • Operate with agility: integrate with legacy systems, navigate ambiguity, ship working builds at speed. 
  • Codify patterns: build scaffolds, SDKs, and documentation to scale success across customers. 
  • Influence platform: inform product strategy through field-tested insights and extensible code. 
  • Partner with live customers and internal teams to design, implement, and deliver solution-ready builds in agile sprints. Your software becomes the reference implementation for scalable Data + AI implementations across our customer base. Influence the core product roadmap through regular touchpoints with WDF engineering teams.