Forward Deployment Engineer
SingleStore15 days ago
Base Salary
$120k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with customers to understand their architectures, use cases, and business goals and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
- Design and implement end-to-end solutions integrating SingleStore with existing application and data ecosystems.
- Lead whiteboard sessions, define architectures and technical specifications, and create execution plans.
- Own delivery of high-impact initiatives from concept through production.
- Provide hands-on troubleshooting, optimization, and pragmatic technical fixes.
- Collaborate with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, and Engineering teams to align customer needs with product capabilities and roadmap.
- Help customers prioritize and operationalize data initiatives and communicate engagement insights back to Product and Engineering.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, solution engineering, or technical consulting, including pre-sales and/or post-sales work.
- 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 is required, with financial services or high-tech experience highly preferred.
- Strong communication and organizational skills for guiding technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to balance technical innovation with pragmatic delivery and realistic scoping.
Benefits
- Roles are available in a variety of locations across the United States.
- The package may include merit increases and annual bonuses for eligible roles.
Tech Stack
SingleStore
Categories
Forward Deployed
About SingleStore
SingleStore builds SingleStoreDB, a distributed SQL database that supports real-time transactions and analytics on the same engine for data-intensive applications. It sells enterprise licenses and a managed cloud service to developers and companies needing low-latency analytics on operational data. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and has a majority investment from Vector Capital.