
Forward Deployed Engineer
SewerAI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $180,000 per year
About the role
- Lead technical discovery sessions to understand customer systems, data, workflows, and constraints
- Define implementation scope, timelines, and deliverables in collaboration with Customer Enablement, Sales, and Engineering
- Translate customer requirements into clear technical plans — including mappings, transformations, and integration design
- Identify risks early, especially around data quality, system compatibility, and workflow complexity
- Set clear success criteria and validation strategies; manage customer expectations throughout
- Own Professional Services projects from kickoff through final delivery
- Drive timelines, milestones, and cross-team coordination
- Maintain detailed documentation of configurations, mappings, and integrations
- Take full ownership of outcomes — data correctness, system behavior, and usability
- Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Perform data imports, exports, and transformations between systems
- Design and execute ETL workflows for structured and semi-structured data
- Write scripts to automate data transformation, validation, and migration tasks
- Build and manage ingestion pipelines for files, databases, APIs, and media datasets
- Integrate systems using APIs, webhooks, and custom scripts
- Configure SaaS-to-SaaS integrations and automation workflows
- Work across tools including AWS (S3, Lambda, IAM), REST APIs, Temporal (or similar orchestration), Zapier/Celigo, and SQL/CSV/JSON/media datasets
- Define field-level mappings between legacy systems and platform data models
- Reconcile source and target schema differences; ensure referential integrity
- Handle real-world data issues: missing fields, inconsistent formats, duplicates, schema drift
- Validate data through sampling, QA checks, and full-scale verification
- Troubleshoot mismatches across files, metadata, APIs, and database records
- Execute staged migrations and validation before full production rollout
- Engage directly with customer technical teams, managers, and stakeholders
- Explain technical topics in clear, practical terms
- Guide customers on best practices for data structure, workflows, and integrations
- Recommend implementation approaches based on real-world constraints
- Push back on infeasible solutions with clear reasoning and alternatives
- Serve as the trusted technical advisor through onboarding, expansion, and complex deployments
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Customer Enablement, and Support
- Build scripts, utilities, and templates to improve implementation efficiency
- Create repeatable patterns for migrations, integrations, and onboarding
- Contribute to internal documentation and playbooks
- Provide product feedback based on real customer use cases
- Help scale Professional Services delivery through better tooling and automation
Requirements
- 4+ years in Professional Services, Solutions Engineering, Implementation Engineering, or a similar customer-facing technical role
- Proven track record managing end-to-end technical implementations or migrations
- Experience working directly with customers in technical environments
- Strong problem-solving ability in ambiguous, real-world situations
- Clear communicator with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Scripting experience — Python, JavaScript, Bash, or similar
- Strong SQL and relational database fundamentals
- ETL workflows and data migration experience
- API and system integration experience
- Comfort working with large, inconsistent, or unstructured datasets
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
- Ability to troubleshoot across multiple systems (DB, API, files, UI)
- Experience automating workflows or data processes
- Experience with AI code tools
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, 401(k), and more
- Unlimited PTO
- Tools you need to get the job done
- Competitive salary and potential equity-based remuneration
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
ETL workflowsdata migrationscriptingPythonJavaScriptBashSQLAPI integrationdata transformationdata validation
Soft Skills
problem-solvingclear communicationcustomer engagementtechnical advisoryproject managementcross-team coordinationexpectation managementdocumentationbest practices guidancerisk identification