SewerAI

Forward Deployed Engineer

SewerAI

full-time

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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

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Hard Skills & Tools
ETL workflowsdata migrationscriptingPythonJavaScriptBashSQLAPI integrationdata transformationdata validation
Soft Skills
problem-solvingclear communicationcustomer engagementtechnical advisoryproject managementcross-team coordinationexpectation managementdocumentationbest practices guidancerisk identification